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...each cooperating nation a committee appoints a jury of well-known native musicians to judge works submitted by their countrymen. Selections of these national juries are then submitted to a special international jury elected each year by the society's Council of Delegates. This year's jury: Modernist Composers Darius Milhaud (France) and Alois Haba (Czechoslovakia), Conductors Sir Adrian Cedric Boult (England), Ernest Ansermet (Switzerland), Thomas Jensen (Denmark...
Results of such careful picking and choosing should be a gilt-edged list of entries for each festival. But musical compositions, unlike dogs, horses and tennis games, cannot be judged on points. Not even the modernist composers and well-known conductors of the society's international jury know for sure whether they are picking a sunrise or a dodo. Ultimate decision rests with the musical public. And very few of the musical public attend the festivals of the International Society for Contemporary Music. The audiences (made up of composers, executant musicians, esthetes, theorists, critics, future-boosters...
...toward music were: 1) the Nazi theories of race, 2) Nazi objections to all satirical, "unwholesome" or experimental types of art. Public performance of works by Jewish composers like Mendelssohn and Gustav Mahler was banned. Likewise banned (though somewhat less systematically) were the discordant works of atonalists and other modernist composers...
...event on the program was an exhibition of "degenerate music" patterned after the exhibition of "degenerate art" that drew throngs in Munich last summer (TIME, Aug. 2). Scheduled for the pillory were compositions by Atonalists Schönberg, Berg and Hindemith, jazz, theoretical and critical writings by Jews and modernist sympathizers...
...While the music of Jewish Atonalist Arnold Schönberg was immediately blacklisted, compositions by "Aryan" Atonalist Paul Hindemith have occasionally been heard, those of "Aryan" Atonalist Alban Berg were heard as late as 1934. Russian Modernist Igor Stravinsky is still a popular composer in the Third Reich...