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Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Grünewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded...
...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...
Critics paid most attention to ultra-modern Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, a symphony supposed to describe a triptych painted by Mathias Grünewald in the 16th Century. Hindemith in writing it had worked himself into a mystical mood, produced occasional passages of eerie loveliness. Critics praised his craftsmanship, his few concessions to melody. Laymen were glad for intermission, impatient for January, Toscanini & Beethoven...
...story goes that the First Man of the land throwing caution to the winds and disregarding the horrible example of the 1919 White Sox, deliberately ordered the team representing his Alma Maler to toss a few games overboard while guests of the land of the cherry blossoms...
...Althouse '34, J.L. Brodrich '35, H.S. Derrickson '35, W.M. Evans '35, H.B. Garrignes '34, R.H. Heindel '33, J.S. Lang '35, E.B. Lee, Jr. '34, C.R. Leech '34, W.R. Lessig, Jr. '34, John Maler '34, H.S. Miller '35, S.A. Polik '34, E.H. Rigg '34, R.W. Turner ;33, A.D. Willow '33, G.D. Zimmerinan...