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...first proposed to give a series of symphony concerts in the Hollywood Bowl, scepticism was felt as to the probable attendance. Some thought that Hollywood would be there, some stoutly maintained that Hollywouldn't. The debate is over. Last week 12,000 people listened while Alice Gentle, lyric soprano, sang solos, supported by the Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. Alexis Kail...
...delicacies. Arnold Schpnberg, Florent Schmitt, Sergei Prokofiev, Ernest Bloch, Arthur Honegger were all well represented by new works, guaranteed to irritate unaccustomed ears. A new composer of unquestioned merit was also brought to light oh this occasion. He is Alexander von Zemlinsky, an Austro-Czecho-Slovakian. His Third, or "Lyric", Symphony was performed; its seven long movements are all built around a single leading motif: the theme of "a man bent on conquest and adventure, to whom love is but an episode in a life of combat and struggle." Zemlinsky used a baritone voice and many kettledrums to bring home...
...real prizefight has not yet been enacted on any American, French, German or Italian lyric stage. Except for a few halfhearted, ineffectual wrestling-passes, no U. S. operagoer has seen even a hint of its possibilities...
...Army in April, 1861, mustered out as Brigadier General in October, 1865, the Nestor of the House of Representatives, rose before his colleagues in council: "In all the 60 years that have elapsed since the war there has not been one great dramatic poem written, one lyric equal to the soldiers' songs sung during that war, nor one of high moral import. We are living in a utilitarian age, and the spirit that actuated that great war appears to have gone. "What have we now? Yes, We Have No Bananas, Take Us To the Land of Jazz, Hail, Hail...
SUNRISE TRUMPETS?Joseph Auslander?Harper ($2.00). Lyric poems, intense, fragmentary, abruptly lovely; their chiseled imagery entirely unhackneyed and often breathtakingly beautiful. One hears the "bronze murmur of bees," feels a ship at night "lifted to the level of the rime-stung stars," knows the "shattered silver" and "crushed gray light" of rain, and the devastating beauty of women long dead?Yseult, Marie Antoinette, Guinevere...