Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When O. Louis Guglielmi was young his violinist father broke a fiddle over his head because he would not practice. After this violent baptism, he was separated from music and sent to study for four years at the National Academy of Design. At the end of that time he was 18 and an accomplished draftsman, but he quit Art cold. Says he, "I just couldn't understand what painting...
...Boys from Syracuse (book by George Abbott; music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart; produced by George Abbott) beans the niggerbaby, hits the bull's eye, rings the bell. Far & away the best musical show in many a year, it pilfers from Shakespeare the plot of his Comedy of Errors. Otherwise Shakespeare is not smart enough to stay in the combine of George Abbott, Richard Rodgers & Lorenz Hart, who set themselves a dizzy pace and cross the tape a little ahead of time...
...Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient, a little showy. "A good composer was lost," he once said, "when I took up writing...
Album of Russian Modern Music (Orchestre Symphonique of Paris, Julius Ehrlich conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Two years ago Dictator Joseph Stalin and his ministry of art, worried about the trend Russian music was taking, flayed the works of Russian modernists for reflecting "leftist tendencies." Those curious to know what it was that worried Comrade Stalin will find it in Mossolov's pounding Steel Foundry and Meytuss' cacophonous Dnieper Water Power Station, both included on these discs...
Arthur Bliss: Music for Strings (BBC Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting; Victor: 6 sides). A bustling, not-too-modernistic suite by one of the most gifted of contemporary British composers...