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...Most famous teacher of composers today is a woman: grey-haired Nadia Boulanger (TIME, Feb. 28, 1938). For 30 years in her Paris studio Pedagogue Boulanger has been quietly hatching out one adept music-writer after another. Nearly every younger modernist who has ever been near Paris has taken a few lessons from her. Last week Teacher Boulanger took her prize pupil to Manhattan, there led the Philharmonic-Symphony in accompaniment while he played his best-known composition. The pupil: a slight, dark-haired, 26-year-old Frenchman named Jean Frangaix. The composition: his tricky, chattering, exuberant Piano Concerto, recorded...
Thirty-five years ago, before Stravinsky and the Viennese Atonalists had cut their modernistic teeth, a shy, bearded Yankee named Charles Ives was busy writing his own kind of modernist music. Nobody paid much attention to Composer Ives's strange, complicated scores. But little by little the few music-lovers who did hear them began to realize that Ives was neither a trickster nor a crackpot, but a writer of real, live music. Today Ives is regarded even by conservative critics as one of the most individual and authentically American of all U. S. composers. But performances...
Music Hour (Tues. 3 p. m. CBS) presents three compositions written especially for radio by modernist Composers Nicolai Berezowsky, Alvin Etler and Edwin Gerschefski...
...Modernist Sculptor Alexander Archipenko, who excites his following by making his concave surfaces convex and his convex surfaces concave, proposed to erect a great statue of great Jew Moses. Said he: "Ever since the Nazis inaugurated their reign of terror, I have been thinking of a figure that would represent justice. . . . In Moses, I believe we have that figure! He changed the laws of life for the Jews, and through the Jews for humanity! In my figure of Moses, the distressed of all religions may find a reaffirmation of their faith...
About 15 years ago, when modernist composers were making heyday, the most puritanical modernists of all were the Viennese Atonalists.* While their fellows boisterously and good-naturedly jounced the sacred applecart of musical structure, the Atonalists systematically bored into that structure like so many worms. Their music was as painful and persistent as a dentist's drill...