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Critic Edward Downs, conductor Arthur Fiedler and composer Paul Hindemith discussed the origin and nature of modern American music last night at New Lecture Hall...
Downs explained that modern music "sounds so terrible" because the originators overthrew form and harmony to say something which they could not say in the rigid classical style. Hindemith added that the main consideration in modern music should concern whether it fulfills its purpose in our life...
Composer Paul Hindemith, conductor Arthur Fiedler, and critic Edward Downs will open a week-long Law School Symposium on Contemporary American Arts when they discuss the topic, "Critique of Modern Music" at 8 p.m. tonight in New Lecture Hall...
...keep its introductory courses "sugar-coated" to attract customers. But an energetic faculty and a rising interest in music have changed all this. Prominent musicians, Wanda Landowska among others, came to give lectures and concerts in the auditorium; the Charles Eliot Norton Fund brought Stravinsky and, this year, Paul Hindemith, as visiting lecturers...
...symphony-goers got to hear the concerto too. What they heard was quite different from the somewhat eclectic Symphony No. 2 of Schuman they had first heard twelve years ago-and rewarded with "practically silence," as Schuman remembers it. A man who used to compose with one ear to Hindemith and Roy Harris (his teacher), the other sometimes to Atonalist Alban Berg, Schuman seemed to have found a little more of a style...