Word: polikoffs
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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Music IN OUR TIME began last year as the inspiration of New York Violinist Max Polikoff, who felt that the public was starved for new music and that contemporary composers deserved a wider hearing ("Death doesn't enhance them, only possibly their music"). With the aid of Manhattan Y.M.H.A. Education Director William Kolodney, Polikoff set up an eight-concert Sunday-afternoon series on modern music with a minimal $5 subscription fee, attracted enthusiastic audiences to the Y.M.H.A.'s Kaufmann Auditorium. This season the series has expanded to ten concerts, all of them performed by first-rate players. Although...