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...danced it. "I never go to see the performances," Hindemith added. "I saw Nobilissima once because I had to conduct it." In less melodic days, Atonalist Hindemith wrote an opera (Hin und Zurück) to be performed both forwards and back wards. The Nazis called him a "Kulturbol-schewist noisemaker" and banned his works from Germany. Says Hindemith: "I never was controversial. But people were." Today, at 50, Hindemith is a solid citizen of New Haven, Conn. ("It's close to New York if you need New York. I don't need New York") and teaches composition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Chicago Cuts a Cake | 12/24/1945 | See Source »

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