Word: musician
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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England's famed Author E. M. Forster (A Passage to India) is neither musician nor music critic; but he is a music-lover. Last week at Harvard, speaking to 700 musicians, professors and critics, he offered words of hope to jaded music critics...
Doubtless, some of these proposals will help. But unless the critic takes a more constructive view than Downes expresses in his you-can't keep-a-good-musician-down theory, neither technical training for him nor decentralization for music will keep him from hurting artists. And unless the public realizes that the critic, for from being a God of Sound, frequently goes home a "defeated man," the true defeat will continue to be rung up on the side of music and the musician...
...think there was enough musical nourishment in a mouth organ to make a full meal. With two London concerts coming up, Larry Adler, whose mouthings are a big draw in the U.S., arranged a special press concert to persuade reviewers that he is something more than a campfire musician...
That point is something not quite appreciated by Bohuslav Martinu, whose Sixth String Quartet closed the program, a work also in Romantic tradition. Remarkable musician that he is, Martinu gives us beautiful, Schubertian oscillations, but once again, as in his other works, one craves some positive, extended melodic ideas to superpose on the fine underlying continuity...
...also the soloist in the premiere of the Variations for Piano and Orchestra by Nicholas Van Slyck 1G, the work which dominated the second half of the program. The Crimson's critic states frankly that he is not enough of a musician to analyze the competition after one hearing; but it should be observed that it was at all times interesting, not to any noticeable extent derivative, and in the best modern tradition of piano-orchestra color. Van Slyck rose to the enthusiastic applause of the audience at the end of his prize-winning work's performance...