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...many times have I gone home a defeated man." The speaker was Olin Downes, the occasion was the final discussion session of last week's "Symposium on Music Criticism," and the speech was an extemporaneous one in answer to some statements made earlier in the day by Columbia's Professor Paul H. Lang. The New York Times' music critic sometimes was "defeated," he explained, because he felt he had left something important out of a review, or perhaps and stated an objection too strongly, or failed to emphasize some idea. Put this together with a later statement, in which Downes...
Saturday, 10:30 o'clock-Meeting in Sanders Theatre; Chairman, Olin Downes. "Consequences of the Recorded Performance"-Otto Kinkeldey; "The Equipment of the Music Journalist"-Paul H. Lang; "The Future of Musical Patronage in America"-Huntington Cairns. 4:00 o'clock-Meeting for discussion of papers read at the morning for discussion of papers read at the morning session. 6:15 o'clock-Dance program in the auditorium of the Cambridge High and Latin School; Martha Graham and Company; a new composition; William Schuman, "Night Journey"; a composition: Carlos Chavez, "Dark Meadows...
Snorted the New York Times's critic Olin Downes: "This is a Hollywood concerto. . . . The melodies are ordinary and sentimental in character; the facility of the writing is matched by the mediocrity of the ideas." Quipped the New York Sun's Irving Kolodin: "More corn than gold...
...Critics Olin Downes and Virgil Thomson, British novelist E. M. Forster, and a host of widely-known composors and musicians will plunge into a three-day examination of the principles of music criticism at a large-scale symposium in Cambridge on May 1, 2, and 3, the Department of Music announced recently...
When she sent her accompanist out for a glass of water, it was too much for the New York Times's stodgy critic Olin Downes, who chided her for overacting "both histrionically and vocally." Says Maggie: "That Olin Downes! When I sing about fire, I want people to see the buildings and hear the screaming, and he says 'go away and don't bother me.' He has no soul, no imagination. He is stone cold, like a piece of mutton...