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...decided to build a chamber music hall in Washington, D. C. and to endow the Music Division of the Library of Congress. The hall cost her $94,000, the yearly endowment $25,000.* Washington festivals supplanted the ones in Pittsfield. There was new music by Ravel, Schönberg, Casella, Respighi, Stravinsky, Bloch. Mrs. Coolidge imported quartets from Europe-the Brosa from London, the Roth from Budapest, the Pro Arte from Belgium, the Busch from Germany. She organized the Elshuco Trio...
...contestants and the impressions they made on 20 artist-judges gave the occasion its importance. In the judges' chairs sat such worthies as Composer Arnold Schönberg, Conductor Tullio Serafin, Tenors Paul Althouse and Giovanni Martinelli, Sopranos Gertrude Kappel, Greta Stückgold, Frida Leider. Of the 225 contestants eight had been chosen for the finals. There were Harold Haugh, earnest, 28-year-old theological student from Cleveland; William Roveen, 25, who for four years has earned his music lessons by waiting on table in a summer camp; Paul Ward, whose last job was a clerkship...
Three weeks ago Arnold Schönberg landed in the U. S., surprised everyone by being a shy, mild little man not a bit fierce or radical in his comments on music or German politics. This week Schönberg classes began in Boston and New York. Paying pupils were few. Some 50 would-be composers had sent in scores, hoping to win scholarships offered by Stokowski, George Gershwin, Mrs. A. Lincoln Filene of Boston and the Steinway and Knabe Piano Companies. But if it was impossible to prophesy what importance Schönberg would have as a teacher...
...been hissed it probably would have been no great surprise to Arnold Schönberg who in his 59 years has become accustomed to ridicule and discouragement. From the beginning his way has been hard. His father died when he was 16 and he had to leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still...
Critics took the stand that in his effort to develop something new Schönberg had lost his real inspiration and become a hard-headed mathematician. (His Cancrizans can be played either backwards or forwards.) But no one has denied his genius as a teacher. In Europe where he had the facilities he took his pupils into his home to live, helped them study Bach and Beethoven, then let them write the kind of music which came naturally to them. His U. S. pupils will have to go through the same fundamental training. The one thing he will not encourage...