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When they adopted lusty, Boston-born Leon Fraser at the age of 18 months, wealthy Mr. & Mrs. Ronald Bonar little thought that in Basle, Switzerland last week the Directors of the Bank for International Settlements would unanimously elect him President...
Written while Mr. Fraser was still devoting himself to a mastery of counterpoint and orchestration, these essays show a keen perception and understanding. Whether he treats of Prokofieff or Wagner, he writes with a detached and unwavering judgment. To him the greatest of music is a combination of form and inspiration. Folk songs should not be an end in themselves, but a tool in the hands of a Vaughan Williams or a Chopin for the highest realization of their possibilities. Nationalism in music is for him a fallacy, since music is so universal as to be above political cr even...
...training broad enough to comprehend the rational place of music among the other arts and its true relation to life. In fact, musical criticism, especially in the last few years, has been emotional, formless, and unreliable. In the few essays collected for the first time, the late Andrew Fraser has set n example and laid a foundation for the future...
...FRASER (Cland Lovat) The Luck of the Bean Raws...
Born. To Dr. John Robert Gregg, 65 (Gregg Shorthand System); and Janet Fraser Kinley Gregg, 32, daughter of University of Illinois' President Emeritus David Kinley; a daughter. Name: Kate Kinley Gregg. Weight...