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...chamber orchestra conducted by Composer Schönberg, with recitation by Erika Stiedry-Wagner; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Twenty-one poems of Albert Giraud are wailed and caterwauled in musical speech (Sprechstimme) to the fevered sounds of eight strings and woodwinds (in various combinations). Modernist Schönberg's jittery measures, more talked about than listened to (Pierrot has had only two U.S. performances), here get their first recording, a fine example of what, 30 years ago, began to ail 20th-century music...
...Foreign immigrants have enormously enriched American literature in the past century." Professor Jones stated, "especially with the flood of refugee European writers, such as Thomas and Erika Mann...
Obsessed since childhood with a sense of exile, she called on literary exiles, among them British Poet Wystan Hugh Auden and his wife Erika Mann. Soon she was invited to join a freakish household of esthetes in Brooklyn Heights. There, sickly, shy and elflike, she presided over a dinner table whose steady boarders were Auden, Anglo-Irish Poet Louis MacNeice (now back in England for military service), British Composer Benjamin Britten, Wisconsin-raised George Davis (literary editor of Harper's Bazaar). The old brownstone became a shabby Mecca for their friends. Russian Painter Pavel Tchelitchew decorated its walls, symphonies...
Even without his famed associates, Klaus Mann could do a good job of editing a magazine by simply depending on his family connections. Among his contributors and contributors-to-be are Father Mann, Uncle Heinrich Mann (a novelist too), Sister Erika Mann, Erika's British poet husband Wystan Hugh Auden, Poet Auden's British novelist friend, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood...
...total defeat of Germany is the only way to rid the world of the Nazi menace," Erika Mann, daughter of famed Thomas Mann and a noted author in her own right, stated in a speech at Brattle Hall last night...