Word: musicalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congratulations and felicitations on the publicity given Izler Solomon in the Music section of TIME, March 27. I've been wondering how long it would be before wide-awake TIME tumbled to the fact that a first-rank American conductor was maturing in Chicago...
Black-bearded Composer Alan Bush, professor at London's Royal Academy of Music, an industrious writer of acid, modernistic scores, has long believed that the only important function of music is to encourage revolution. In 1929, while staid London music lovers frowned and looked the other way, London's musical leftists, led by Composer Bush, drew throngs to a class-angled production of Handel's venerable sacred oratorio, Belshazzar. Handel's serene 18th-Century score was sung with traditional massiveness by a chorus of 1,800 voices. But it was so staged that the fall...
Last week Bombster Bush did it again. This time he rented Albert Hall (capacity 12,000), and launched a three-day Festival of Music for the People. Main feature: a massive pageant depicting the story of "the people in their struggle forward out of subjection." In it danced, acted, sang and marched 500 pageanteers from London's Labor choirs, 100 folk dancers from the village of Abbott's Bromley, dancers from London's Communist Unity Theatre, Negro Baritone Paul Robeson, and 100 English veterans of the Spanish Loyalist army. Its music was composed by a bombing squad...
...fair sample of Bernays' skill was his promotion of a new "high fidelity" radio for Philco Radio & Television Corp. several years ago. Bernays hired Pitts Sanborn, music critic of the New York World-Telegram, to write several hundred "leaders in the world of music" asking if they did not agree that it was time a better radio was produced. Those that replied naturally said yes. Bernays then got up a booklet full of apt quotes from their letters, sent it (over Pitts Sanborn's signature) to newspaper editors with a letter pointing out that musical leaders were demanding...
...Saturdays, when more clients come to town, two colored moppets in livery greet them at the front door, usher them into a lobby glad with music and flowers and the trilling of canaries. Christmas and holidays the bank keeps open house, with fruit cake, soft drinks and wine for all comers. Last year the bank gave away 20,000 gladiolus bulbs from its own nursery...