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...modern half of the program featured the first performance of Karl Kohn's A Latin Fable, for male chorus and piano four-hands. The fable concerns the ass who put on a lion's skin, but Kohn set it rather didactically, giving humor no place. His music was astringent and powerful, and was probably more rewarding to listen to than to sing...
...Instructor, to lecture in History at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Carl Kaysen, assistant professor of Economics, for research at the London School of Economics, University of London; Theodore M. Mills, research associate, Laboratory of Social Relations, for research at the University of Oslo; and Karl G. Kohn '48' teaching fellow, department of Music, for research in Music, University of Helsinki...
...Anvil Books (Van Nostrand), all originals, with such no-nonsense titles as Making of the Modern French Mind by Hans Kohn and The Age of Reason by Louis L. Snyder...
Nearly as impressive was Karl Kohn's The Red Cockatoo (1954), based on three Chinese poems of extraordinary beauty. Lime Woollen, Kohn understands how to emphasize a world without a shout from the singers or an unnecessary consonance. The percussive piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing piano solo functions as a commentary on the singing and only rarely stoops to outright chinoiserie. The Monk from Shu is especially effective in its delicate evocation of "icy bells." The climactic poem, however, fails to give the work a proper finish. The fate of the red cockatoo in the poem...
...Kohn has made it a passionate catharsis, and the inappropriate spill of emotion at this crucial point vitiates the cycle as a whole...