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...Tsar to Lenin," a documentary film tracing Russia's history through the World War and the 1917 Revolution and edited and commented on by Max Eastman, will be presented tomorrow evening at 8 oclock in the New Lecture Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Socialist League...
...Eastman and Herman Axelbank spent 13 years assembling movie shots made by newsreel men, Red and White propaganda films, and pictures taken by amateur photographers including Tsar Nicholas II himself. The producers of the film have attempted to counteract the effects of official Soviet films which have been accused of minimizing the role played by Leon Trotsky in the Revolution...
...white-haired Eastman founded a $17,000,000 school of music in Rochester. This huge establishment was somewhat grandiose for a town of Rochester's size, but the Eastman School of Music flourished, and is today counted one of the most important music conservatories...
...director for their music school, Eastman's executives in 1924 picked a boyish, bearded, 28-year-old Nebraskan named Howard Hanson. Director Hanson's main interest was composition, and it was not long before he had turned Eastman's music school into a gigantic incubator for young U. S. composers. For them Director Hanson provided classes in counterpoint, a symphony orchestra, and even a ballet company to play their works. He installed a recording system, made phonograph records of students' lopsided sonatas and sway-backed symphonies, so that they could study their faults over & over again...
...festival's end patient Rochesterians had sat through so many new U. S. compositions, that they would have clutched 0 Sole Mio or Ach Du Lieber Augustin like a drowning man. Most-talked-about item of the series: a symphony by a 20-year-old post graduate Eastman student named Owen Reed. Some critics found Reed's brief, concise opus somewhat monotonous. Not so Director Hanson, who spoke of it with exuberant breath: "Comparison of Reed's work with Beethoven's can be made only by a critic in the year...