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CROWELL, has added the first full length biography of Mendelsohn to its rapidly growing library of the lives of interesting people. The story of the musician's struggles against his professional antagonists in Berlin and against his position as a man born in the Jewish faith is dramatically and interestingly told by Schirma Kaufman one of the younger members of the Philadelphia Orchestra...
...genius at the age of fourteen and fully mature at seventeen, Mendelsohn experienced as much activity in his short life of thirty nine years as most men would in two lifetimes and the author has carefully guided the reader through the interesting development of his many struggles and less frequent pleasures...
Kaufman has especially shown a sympathetic understanding of the minor details of the musician's environment and the effect of his heritage on his compositions and behaviour. He portrays the strong influence of the orthodox character of the senior Mendelsohn on his son's education, the fight against the Jewish faith and its consequent reaction after becoming protestant, and the guiding spirit of the great Goothe with a comprehensive touch which can only be given by a writer who knows his subject
...book is provokingly stimulating to discussion of it. There are chapters on the history of the new development, functionalism, and the principles of the new style, while there are also discussions as well as photographs of the work of such well known men as Frank Lloyd, Oud, Walter Gropius, Mendelsohn, Mies van der Rohe, and others of all countries...
...program announced for the Lowell concerts, which the Brattle Hall performance will closely approximate, includes: Triumph March Beethoven Pincal's Care Mendelsohn Symphony Shubert Egmont Overture Beethoven Selections from "Hit the Deck" Youmans Russian Lullaby Berlin