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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Carmen (Mon. 10:30 p.m., MBS) experimentally streamlined to a radio version in modern American...
SCHUMANN: SYMPHONY No. 2 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 10 sides). First modern recording of one of the greatest Romantic symphonies. Ormandy's Philadelphians have done it complete justice...
About all the painting most strictly modern architects want in their buildings can be done by a house painter. This fact greatly grieves the young school of muralists who have found their inspiration in Rivera and Orozco, their opportunity under WPA. Lately, however, a few architects and a few painters have had a happy, conciliatory thought. If modern architecture relies on the beauty of abstract forms, why should it not employ, for certain chaste effects, the painting of pure abstractionists...
...went reeling and moaning thro' the streets!" said Henry James of his first visit. If art students reel less easily nowadays it is not because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation when he took the occasion of his victory to comment darkly on the dark outlook for modern...
...Lord's Supper. Bishop Oxnam explained that this broadcast, first of its kind, would enable Methodists to take Communion in small outlying churches whose pastors, not fully ordained, are not privileged to give it. Thus Bishop Oxnam's broadcast was a logical extension of a modern Protestant idea: that the minister's work may well be widened and simplified by the devices of science. In its ultimate extension, one sound film could become the agency of thousands of Lord's Suppers...