Word: heralds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Completing the roster are literary critic Alfred Kazin, New York Herald Tribune music critic Virgil Thomson '22, J.J. Sweeney, former director of the New York Museum of Modern Art, and public opinion expert Lyman Bryson of Columbia University and the Columbia Broadcasting system...
Reported the Daily Herald critic: "I went skeptical, like most of the audience, I fancy, but after listening to a programme of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bloch and Enesco, I was convinced that Adler is a very considerable artist and that in his hands the harmonica can indeed be made to do almost anything-including playing chords and imitating a plucked string...
Next day the newspapers did their patriotic best to make it a pugilistic Dunkirk. The Tory Daily Mail stout-fella'd: ". . . a Briton has once again proved his ability to 'take it' in the face of hopeless odds. . . ." The Laborite Daily Herald gave it the headline of the week...
...succeeding speeches, Olga Samaroff, musical educator, critic, and pianist, looked at criticism from the point of view of the performer, while Virgil Thomson, the New York Herald-Tribune's critic, did "The Art of Judging Music...
About 150 seats also are left for each of the five speaking sessions and discussions, which will include speeches by E. M. Forster, British critic and author, Virgil Thomson '22, the New York Herald Tribune's critic-composer, and Paul H. Lang, author, and professor of music at Columbia...