Word: krasner
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for a wobbly beam or two-notably some unlikely melodramatics at the end-House is a well-constructed movie. Into its making went an intelligent screen play by Playwright Philip (Anna Lucasta) Yordan; some distinguished lighting effects and camera work by Milton Krasner; and Director Joseph (A Letter to Three Wives) Mankiewicz's talent for handling atmosphere and sets as effective projections of character. Meatiest character, of course, is arrogant old Monetti, a role which Robinson plays (Italian accent, organ-grinder mustache and all) with bravura and obvious relish...
Alban Berg: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Louis Krasner with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; six sides). Much of the music of Viennese Composer Berg, who died in 1935 (a disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...
Walter Piston: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Louis Krasner and the composer; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Boston Atonalist Piston writes with his head only. For modern music's strong-man violinist Krasner (TiME, Dec. 16), Piston's mental calisthenics are grammar-grade stuff...
Last week in Philadelphia, Violinist Krasner and white-haired Conductor Leopold Stokowski's Philadelphia Orchestra gave Schönberg's Violin Concerto its first public hearing. While the aged Academy of Music's Friday-afternoon audience sat quietly from force of habit, Louis Krasner fiddled so hard he nearly dropped his bow. The bewildered audience couldn't tell whether all of Schönberg's "unplayable" notes were being played or not. When it was over, the orchestra looked embarrassed, the audience, impressed by an obvious feat of strength and skill, drowned...
Fortnight before this public wrestling match, Violinist Krasner had invited Composer Schönberg to hear him play the piece, privately. Schönberg listened with gloomy amazement. Said he: "Now I will have to write a still more difficult concerto...