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Lean, twangy, Oklahoma-born Roy Harris, a sobersided, high-brow composer, has never been ranked as a popular song-maker. Last month, on the day that Italy struck at France and England, Composer Harris sat thoughtfully down to some verses he had written. Four days later he finished a song for baritone and a choral setting, with an orchestral accompaniment full of plangent brasses and surging strings of the Preamble to the Constitution...
Richard Aldington: "It is typical high-brow delusion to suppose that authors influence anyone but the intellectuals and that intellectuals count for anything in the formation of national policy and the state of the mass mind. Most people in America have never heard of the writers MacLeish mentions and could not have been influenced by them. Most intellectuals make rotten soldiers anyway, so their defection is of small importance - supposing the defection exists...
Inside this framework Michael Todd (who last year produced The Hot Mikado and this year The Streets of Paris at the Fair) put on a show which, at 25?, is the best buy in the history of the amusement area. No high-brow affair, it is lavishly designed for the outdoors with floodlights, loudspeakers, has Irene Sharaff's gorgeous costuming and Hassard Short's lively direction, does a slick...
Alfred Wallenstein, sometime concert cellist, has been musical director of Newark, N. J.'s station WOR (Mutual network) for five years. Long ago he disabused the station's management of their theory that Bach was too high-brow for their listeners; long ago he began putting new compositions on the air. Last week Director Wallenstein for the 300th time gave a work its radio debut...
Half a century ago, when frail, poetic Edward MacDowell was No. 1 U. S. composer, the models for high-brow music were Brahms, Grieg, Wagner. Just before World War I, Kulturbolschewiks Arnold Schonberg and Igor Stravinsky (TIME, March 11) led a revolution against musical romanticism. When the revolution was over, U. S. composers still found themselves writing European music. Such U. S. composers as Aaron Copland and John Alden Carpenter tried to go native by using jazz tunes, but only the tunes were American. The musical grammar and syn tax still sounded like Brahms or Stravinsky. Today there is still...