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...high-spirited discussion in the Kerr household. Her five sons knew all about her being interviewed, and sitting for her portrait. At this point, fortnight ago, TIME, with Guilt and Anxiety as its cover subject, arrived at the Kerr home. Son Christopher, 15, looked long and admiringly at Edvard Munch's 1893 painting of a skull-headed figure, screaming out its loneliness. He turned to his mother and said: "I like it. They've caught the real...
...sensuousness of the Requiem can easily swamp its melodic simplicity, but Charles Munch and the chorus avoided this pitfall perfectly. Munch emphasized heavily but tastefully the continual swelling and falling of dynamics, and the chorus maintained excellent clarity of voices to give their texture a limpid serenity...
What is most striking about the Requiem and this performance was the combination of sweetness with simplicity and order. Faure scored it for small forces and encapsulated loudness and brass entrances within the quietness and reserve of its larger structure; Munch never violated his intention. This combination of restraint and feeling seems to hark back much to the Enlightenment, for Faure's paradise is a place of rest with no harrowing alternative of hell. He is essentially a humanist who finds the Christian forms both beautiful and adaptable to his own feelings...
...Munch never let Bruckner's rhetoric get out of hand. He controlled the volume and balance so well that the work built up to its most massive cannonade of sound at the very end and the removal of one choir, say the brass, did not weaken the motion of the other parts. Chorus, orchestra and soloists blended easily, the trumpets and horns penetrating the luminous tone of the chorus but never over-powering it. The chorus's enunciation was perfect throughout. As in the Faure, here there was no schmalz, and Richard Burgin's violin solo in the Aeterna...
...painted by Norwegian Artist Edvard Munch (pronounced Moohnk), who, although a founder of the expressionist school of painting, has only lately begun to gain some of the fame of his turn-of-the-century contemporaries, Van Gogh, Gauguin and Toulouse-Lautrec. Considered a madman much of his life, the anguished and neurotic Munch was the son of a military surgeon who became a religious fanatic later in life and of a mother who died of tuberculosis when the boy was five. "I always felt," recalled Munch, "that I was treated unjustly, without a mother, sick and threatened with punishment...