Word: marvin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Georgia, which is now completing a fiveyear, $261 million building program, both Governor Marvin Griffin and Senator Herman Talmadge are against federal aid. State Superintendent of Schools M. D. Collins has endorsed it because he thinks it would hasten school construction. "Georgia," says he, "is certainly capable of financing its own school program, but it would have to be on a long-term basis, say 20 years. The question is whether Georgia wants to take on such an obligation...
...18th century. That interest in turn has sent students burrowing through monastery attics, museums and castles in search of long-lost scores. One of the more esoteric recent finds has come from the Escolanía (music school) of Montserrat in Spain, where California-born Pianist Frederick Marvin unearthed a hoard of keyboard sonatas by Padre Antonio Soler, 18th century Spain's only great instrumental composer. Last week, in a recital at Manhattan's Town Hall, Pianist Marvin put a few samples of his find on display...
...Marvin got on the trail several years ago when he stumbled across a volume of 14 Soler sonatas in a secondhand bookshop in California, immediately recognized them as "something different." He played the sonatas in recital, but suspected that they were heavily edited and set out (with the aid of a foundation grant) to track down the 50-odd additional Soler sonatas listed in musical dictionaries...
...knew that Soler had spent most of his life at the Escorial's monastery near Madrid, composing, conducting the choir and giving lessons to members of the Spanish royal family. But Escorial officials gave him no help. Marvin moved on to the Escolanía at Montserrat, where...
...fast as he found them, Marvin played them. "You can't imagine the thrill," he says, "of knowing I was the first man to hear them since the 18th century." Back at the Escorial, Marvin pried loose 33 additional sonatas, picked up more in Barcelona and at King's College, Cambridge. Last week's recital revealed Soler as a composer of technical virtuosity and sharply contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic...