Word: organisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...also honest and suffers acutely because the Axis press and radio systematically distort his acts, words and purposes, try incessantly to persuade the world that somehow or other His Holiness is on the totalitarian side against Democracy. Recently, for instance, the Nazi-dominated No. 1 Catholic news-organ of the Czech Protectorate declared: "There is no Catholic in Europe who would shed a tear to see the collapse of democratic political disorder and who further would not sincerely welcome the fall of economic liberalism, which has been denounced by the Pope's leading Catholic ideologists because it misuses...
...series of concerts at the Germanic Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
...amazing volume of tone it produces. To look at it, with its aesthetically-shaped frame, and its rows of fragile strings, one would think the best it could manage were a few inspired, but hardly audible tinkles, whereas in reality, when skillfully played, it can compete with the organ in fullness and richness of tone. The combination of the harp and organ, which I have never heard, should certainly be an unusual one, if not downright peculiar. It is hard to imagine the sustained, bellows quality of the organ blending with the string-like impact of a harp, but both...
...music itself: The program opens with organ music by Bach, the Prelude and St. Anne Fugue in E-flat, (so-called because of its similarity to a well-known hymn-tune of the same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ...
This concert will mark also the first American performance of Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto, which had its world premiere in Paris last year. Luckily I know someone who was at that premiere, and what I say now about the concerto is all from him. Evidently it is not only one of Poulenc's best works, getting away to a certain extent from the narrowness of Les Six and the ragtime of the twenties, but it is a thoroughly enjoyable piece of music as well. It starts out with a pompous Handelian little theme, which is quickly broken down...