Word: schelomo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Evocations, as in many earlier works* (Schelomo, Israel Symphony, Sacred Service, Voice in the Wilderness), Bloch mixes French Impressionism with fervent Levantine lamentation, getting an idiomatic pottage peculiarly his own. His finest scores reflect the barbaric splendor of the Old Testament, sing their Hebraic song with prophetic thunder and wailing intensity. Even his "America" Symphony -which won a $5,000 prize offered in 1927 by Musical America for the most distinguished work by a resident American- was colored by Hebraic idioms...
...home to peddle cuckoo-clocks. In 1916 Bloch landed in the U. S., as accompanist for Maud Allen, a dancer whose tour ended disastrously in Ohio. Bloch took a room in Manhattan. He was penniless but in his trunk were the Israel Symphony, the Psalms, the Trois Poemes Juifs, Schelomo, music which the French had called too German, the Germans too French...