Word: kurt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...indeed is the state of musical affairs when so feeble a composition as Kurt Atterberg's wins the $10,000 Symphonic prize of the Schubert Centennial Contest (TIME, Dec. 3). So did critics mourn in Manhattan last week and in many a major city in Europe-all save Ernest Newman of the London Sunday Times who refused even to take it seriously, marked great slices in it as belonging to Dvorak, Berlioz, Stravinsky, to Schubert himself, and laughed...
Died. Capt. Kurt Grahn, 60, of the North German Lloyd liner Stuttgart; of heart disease; on the bridge of his ship, as it backed out of its Hoboken dock en route for England...
...latter commission they were, as had been predicted, unable to fulfill because none of the efforts submitted seemed entirely adequate. The grand prize of $10,000 offered by the Columbia Phonograph Company they could and did award-to one Kurt M. Atterberg, 40, of Sweden, for his Symphony in C Major...
...Manhattan. In the Guild Theatre, Manhattan, a newly organized society, The Musical Forum, plans to present on certain Sunday even- ings programs of concert music that, in the ordinary course of the season, would not be heard. It does not propose to emphasize ultra-modern compositions. Kurt Schindler is director...
...Eric Waring -Brentano's ($2). Heroines called "gentlemen" have been the vogue. They combine fascination and sportsmanship, but not ladylike morals and manners. Now comes Freya Von Herrenstein trying bravely to be both a gentleman and a lady. For ten years she passes as her dead twin brother, Kurt-at home, at military school, in the Uhlans, in gay 19th Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp characters, vivid...