Word: modernist
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...French, who boo at the drop of a diminished seventh, read newspapers while the music plays, shout "à l'operé!" or "à dormir!" when the music is too polite for their tastes. Worst of all for the progressive musicians, French Dixieland fans make a practice of invading modernist concerts just to snort and bellow...
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8 (Anthony di Bonaventura; #&134; Classic Editions). First LP of a work composed during the war, when Prokofiev was successfully fusing his modernist enthusiasm with his genuine romantic tenderness. It is consistently attractive and warmhearted, sometimes teeters on the edge of sentimentality. Performance: good, if on the chilly side...
Although he has a fairly solid repertory in recital music and some grand opera (he once sang Modernist Alban Berg's Wozzek under Stokowski), Eddy knows on which side his short'nin' bread is buttered. His nightclub and concert audiences would rather hear Short'nin' Bread than Schubert. And as Eddy himself sings in his parody: "Mammy's little Nelson loves short'nin' bread...
...member American Council of Christian Churches circulated a petition among clergymen asking for an investigation of the Churches to combat the infiltration of Communists. "The preservation of both civil and religious liberty," said the Council, "calls for such an investigation." The group, organized in 1941, sought to "offset the modernist, Socialist influence of the National Council of Churches...
Berger, Bronx-born, began improvising at the piano when he was ten, and once thought of a performer's career. But he was supporting himself as a music critic and ghostwriter by the time he was 20. In the early '30s, he covered modernist concerts for the tabloid Mirror while the more austere dailies were filling their columns with Rachmaninoff. Except for spells of teaching (at Mills and Brooklyn Colleges) and study (with Darius Milhaud and Nadia Boulanger), he has been at it ever since, is now the Herald Trib's most influential critic next to Critic...