Word: foss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nazi Germany's record in music has been as shoofly as in the other arts: there are today more good German composers outside the Fatherland than in it. Not all the exiles are veterans. Last week a phenomenal 17-year-old popped up in Manhattan. His name : Lukas Foss. What made him pop was incidental music he had written for performances of The Tempest by children of arty, part-time King-Coit school...
...Lukas Foss was born Lukas Fuchs, son of a Berlin lawyer and a painter. The Fosses, Jewish, went to Paris in 1933, where Lukas, who had begun his musical lispings at seven, studied with pedagogues of the Conservatoire. In 1937 the family reached the U. S., put Lukas in Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Since then he has written piano pieces (published by Schirmer), a violin sonata (broadcast from Manhattan), two operas (not yet performed). Father Foss is in business. In Germany he wrote books on philosophy, but in the U. S., says Son Lukas, "the only philosophy...