Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...folk music is the good earth from which much great music springs, the U.S. has a rich subsoil. But little has been cultivated outside the jazz patch, and the U.S. opera crop has been especially sparse. Last week a foreign-born U.S. composer proclaimed that the soil was ready to bear, if only U.S. composers would work it. He offered a piece of his own produce to prove his point...
...Twelve Tones. "Everything I have done so far has been working toward this," Kurt Weill said last week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
...universal language of music has many dialects, and most Western peoples understand only their own. Yet, as Western musicians have been proving since the early 19th Century; other musical dialects which at first horrify the ear can educate and even delight...
...small new recording company in Manhattan is dedicated to that proposition. Last week, the Ethnic Folkways Library issued its fifth album, Music of Indonesia ($7.33)*. Ten more albums will be released in the fall...
...simple gravity of a Bach sarabande. A Sundanese love lament called Drizzling Rain, accompanied on a zither, carries its grief through a long series of delicate ornamentations. An ancient song of the Batak hill people, accompanied by a wooden xylophone and split cymbal, is strikingly like the melancholy music of Provencal shepherds...