Word: martinu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That point is something not quite appreciated by Bohuslav Martinu, whose Sixth String Quartet closed the program, a work also in Romantic tradition. Remarkable musician that he is, Martinu gives us beautiful, Schubertian oscillations, but once again, as in his other works, one craves some positive, extended melodic ideas to superpose on the fine underlying continuity...
...Thursday evening's quartet concert, which features new works by Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Piston, and Bohuslav Martinu written especially for the Symposium, 150 tickets remain of the nearly 500 that were made available yesterday. The concert will be held in Sanders Theatre at 6:15 o'clock...
...Bohuslav Martinu, a Czechoslovak, William Schuman, President of the Juilliard School in New York City, and the Mexican virtuese Carlos Chavez are included among the distinguished musicians invited to make contributions. Martinu with Walter Piston, professor of Music, are composing string quartets for the opening program, and Arnold Schoenberg is preparing a string trio for the occasion...
More lenient, Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu and Italian modernist Composer Vittorio Rieti hedged. So did Austrian Composer Ernst Krenek, who philosophically noted that the great 16th-Century Italian Composer Palestrina "collaborated" with the Pope and the Council of Trent, and that Russian Composer Dmitri Shostakovich is unquestionably "collaborating" with Joseph Stalin. Concluded he: "Anyone called upon for advice will have to search his conscience: does he wish to lend his hand to the political game, or does he prefer to live by the word of the Gospel: 'Judge not, that ye be not judged...
...happy tohu-bohu of the liberated Parisians, French musical culture began to be heard from. Most of the musicians, French and foreign, who had made Paris a prewar center of musical fashion had escaped into exile. Among those still in the U.S. were Composers Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Bohuslav Martinu, Conductor Pierre Monteux, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Piano Teacher Isidor Philipp...