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Only off-key note in the film is the background music. Written by left-wing Hanns Eisler, composer of the battle song Komin-tern, it is not Mexican, but an ultrasophisticated mixture of Hindemith, Schönberg and Prokofieff. This was not the way Steinbeck had planned it. His first choice for composer was Mexico's famed Silvestre Revueltas, a man of Balzacian corpulence, Bohemian courses, and a gift for orchestration. At the climax of their negotiations the hard-drinking Revueltas-to Steinbeck's and Mexico's dismay -died at the unripe age of 40 years...
...with both orchestras, were told to make their choice. Conductor Janssen, sole backer of his orchestra, seemed unperturbed. His audience last week was near capacity (1,290). He had four more concerts scheduled (and four for children), with two newsworthy world premieres up his sleeve-new works by Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky...
...Zimmer, Mann owed more than his plot. From his Maya, a translation (into German) of a gigantic compendium of Hindu mythology, Mann took detail, background, much, very likely, of his philo-symbological machinery. It is Dr. Zimmer too who best summed up this novel: "It is as if Hindemith composed a one-act opera, availing himself of the motifs from The Twilight of the Gods...
Recently awarded the Knight Prize for composition by the Music Department, Shapero is the first Harvard undergraduate to win the Prix de Rome. The winning piece is his first attempt at writing for orchestra. This summer he will study under the German composer Paul Hindemith at Stockbridge...
...among others, to play under him. He dug deep into his life savings to pay their salaries and the rental of Carnegie Hall for a night. Conductor Klemperer's concert nearly filled the hall with people, and did fill it with satisfactory sounds of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Hindemith. In a not entirely successful attempt to gain brilliance of string tone, Conductor Klemperer had his fiddlers and violists on their feet throughout the concert. As definitely as any conductor could, Otto Klemperer had proved what he intended to. He hulked off, made ready to return to California and seclusion...