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...book that makes it less remote is Mozart, by Marcia Davenport, first published in 1932 and now reissued (Scribner; $6). Author Davenport, daughter of famed Soprano Alma Gluck, writes honestly, if often sentimentally, and with style about "one of the world's best-loved immortals...
Just Another Composer. Marcia Davenport jots down a few figures that are far more expressive than words to explain Mozart's desperate struggle. "About $200 was all he ever received for Figaro, about $225 for Don Giovanni . . . and about $112 for the Requiem...
...Dignity of Man, by Russell Davenport, published after the author's death, boldly faced the question of U.S. chances for survival in a materialistic world in which Communism may be able to beat the West at the game of materialism. Davenport made it clear that even guns and butter together can no longer win unless men find strength in God and individual dignity...
...Haydn, and Bach's Wir Sctzen Uns from the St. Matthew Passion. A freshman chamber orchestra accompanied the Passions' magnificent lullaby. The two choruses sang well together; in the future they should join forces for a larger portion of their joint concerts. Both Miller and Radcliffe's Cornelia Davenport conducted with an agreeable lack of interpretive mannerisms. They deserve credit for building the freshman choruses into a fine musical organization...
Died. Charles Edward ("Cow Cow") Davenport, 63, self-taught Negro composer of more than 100 songs (I'll Be Glad When You're Dead, You Rascal You; Mama Don't Allow No Easy Riders Here), onetime piano accompanist for the late Bessie Smith; of a heart attack; in Cleveland...