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Almost before the candle fumes were cleared, the Boston musicians returned in white pea jackets, and were on their way to town with Composer Louis Gruenberg's modernistic jazz score, Daniel Jazz. The result was hardly enough to shake a Brahmin into a shag, but it was pretty hot stuff for the Boston Symphony...
...Chamber Music Festival's 20th anniversary. Participating were twelve of the world's best-known chamber-music players, the famed Roth, Gordon and Kolisch Quartets. On the list of new quartets and quintets to be chambered were recent works by U. S. Composers Frederick Jacobi and Louis Gruenberg, Austrian Composers Ernst Toch and Anton von Webern, British Composer Frank Bridge...
George Gershwin, Louis Gruenberg, John Alden Carpenter, most famous of U. S. nationalist composers, have avoided jazz symphonies, contenting themselves with writing rhapsodies, operas, ballets, tone-poems. Loudest pooh-poohing of their efforts has come, not from high-brow critics and musicians, but from swing and hot jazz fans who find this symphonic jazz stiff and imitative...
...competition, under pseudonyms, 40 citizens entered quintets which were judged by Composers Frederick Jacobi and Samuel Gardner, onetime Associate Conductor Modeste Alloo of the Cincinnati Symphony. Last week two movements of the prize-winning quintet were played over an NBC program and the composer's name announced: Louis Gruenberg. Well known for his murky, savage Emperor Jones, his light, charming Jack & the Beanstalk, Composer Gruenberg, nevertheless, received his money by mail. This week the Lake Placid Club will be the scene of the first concert performance of his work, but Louis Gruenberg will not be there. The Club bars...
...pleasing ordinary listeners goes, it is hard to put life and variety into the neat forms of chamber music, hard to put color, especially over the radio, into the timbres of piano and strings. Gruenberg's quintet, wandering among E minor and related keys, sounded cool, intellectual, mathematical. But listeners who knew him were pleased that the judges had awarded the $1,000 to one who would not write skin-deep music for anyone's money. Son of a poor Russian violinist who brought him to Manhattan's East Side as a baby, Composer Gruenberg...