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...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...
Last week sad-eyed, stolid Hindemith, who is having a curiously unmanaged and unpublicized U. S. tour, bobbed up in Chicago to conduct the U. S. premiere of his latest work, Symphonic Dances, with the Chicago Symphony. In his enthusiasm, Conductor Hindemith tore a page of his score, lost his baton, ended by conducting with his fists. Critics approved his new work unanimously. Also present on a nearly all-Hindemith program was Chamber Music No. 1, a suite for small orchestra whose last movement, a macabre fox trot, is supposed to depict the hysteria of War-torn Europe. Polite Chicagoans...
Palestrina, Poulene, Tallis, and Hindemith are also represented on tomorrow's program, which will be brought to a close with selections from Purcell's opera, "King Arthur, or the British Worthy." Certainly this early English composer's music should be heard more often, and it is encouraging to note in passing that Lowell House is planning to present "Dido and Aeneas" in April...
...Hindemith's ability is not confined to instrumental music. His "Das Neue Werk," now being prepared for performance by the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, is a masterpiece of contrapuntal writing with a purity of line that is a blessed relief after the saccharine style of much nineteenth century choral writing. Despite its bizarre harmonies, this composition reminds one in certain of its features of fifteenth and sixteenth century religious works...
...Koussevitzky will open the program tonight with Hindemith's Concerto for String and Brass instruments, which the composer wrote especially for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and which was first played here...