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BLOCH: QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (Concert-Disc). Best known for his powerful and sensuous Hebraic music (Schelo-mo and Sacred Service), Bloch also wrote other works, like the 1923 quintet, that are not specifically of Jewish inspiration but are also lavishly colored and emotionally evocative. The floating violins of the Fine Arts Quartet properly take precedence in virtuosity, even over the shimmering piano of Frank Glazer...
Roman, Arabic, Hebraic...
...Reform Judaism. When Protestant Theologian Adolf von Harnack declared Judaism to be a spiritually inferior faith in his The Essence of Christianity, Baeck replied with The Essence of Judaism. Baeck defended Judaism as a classical religion, and argued that Christianity became romantic and sentimental when it departed from its Hebraic origins. But he acknowledged the importance of Jesus as a Jewish teacher who revered the tradition of the Prophets...
ERNEST BLOCH: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Angel). Bloch was noted for his Jewish music, but in this work he denied having any Hebraic inspiration or intention and referred to the main theme as the "American Indian." The overtones are oriental nevertheless, and the coloring exotic. Yehudi Menuhin, who first played for Bloch when he was six, lends to the work of his late friend a special intensity, as though he were celebrating a mystery...
When Milhaud came to Mills in 1940, the laissez-faire intellectuality that made him a troublesome composer marked him immediately as a superb teacher. With an interest that spans every voice of music, from Hebraic folk songs to Bach to jazz, Milhaud never corrals a student's creativity, but merely stands by as music's advocate-and form's conscience...