Word: martinu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Half Time by Bohuslav Martinu seems to mirror in sound the delirium of a football game-bass-drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...