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...viewed as hokey. That's because registered therapists working with handicapped or troubled children usually get them to make music as a way of expressing themselves and interacting with one another. In Britain, where music therapy has been a registered health profession since 1999, Gary Ansdell at the Nordoff Robbins Music Therapy Center in London points out that "it's all about active music making, not passive listening." Ansdell is also scornful of Don Campbell and his "Mozart effect" empire. "It has to be more complex than that," he says. "We're not doing Mozart a favor to reduce...
SAMUEL I. NEWHOUSE HEINRICH NORDOFF LAURIS NORSTAD DAVID M. OGILVY WILLIAM OGLE WALTER O'MALLEY
Music-serious music-is a profession which, to the helpless regret of music lovers as well as musicians, pays out in chicken feed. Thirty-one-year-old Paul Nordoff, angular, wirehaired, blond Philadelphian, has been better heeled than most young composers. He has won two Guggenheim fellowships worth about $4,500, took last year's $1,500 Pulitzer scholarship, is a teacher at the Philadelphia Conservatory. Composer Nordoff. who would have become a concert pianist had he not found that he was expected to study showy trash like Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, has written two piano concertos...
...Masterpiece was commissioned by Philadelphia's Academy of Vocal Arts, an up-&-coming outfit spark plugged by an energetic socialite, Mrs. Clarence A. Warden. The Academy paid Composer Nordoff all it could afford-$200-for 25 minutes of music, and he threw in a dozen extra minutes gratis. His tricky rhythms, his obstinate tunes might have stumped an even more experienced company, but the Academy singers-notably pretty Soprano Doris Blake-and a small orchestra under Conductor Vernon Hammond pulled into the final cadence without a grind or a bump. The Masterpiece (libretto by Franklin Brewer) told, with...
Bouquets to the supporting cast, to Alfred Newman for his powerful score, to Nordoff and Hall for their splendid story, and especially to Producer Goldwyn for his "touch" and for his perspicacity in building a splendidly effective set which he proceeds to tear down with even greater effectiveness...