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...students played his rich, rhapsodic chamber music and orchestral compositions (including the now famed Schelomo) in a two-day festival. Composer Bloch, now 67 and clean-shaven, has never written any tunes that are hummed in every U.S. household. But musicians rank him, along with Stravinsky, Hindemith and Schoenberg, as the best of the European expatriates now in the U.S. Bloch knows as much about strident dissonances and spastic rhythms as the next man, but he is their master, not their servant...
...Arnold Schoenberg's String Trio, Opus 45, has extraordinary strength and spaciousness of sonority to widen this composer's usual sphere of unfiled phantasmagoria. It taxes the strings, quite successfully, to the hilt, with truncated, screeching tremolos, portamentos, and sounds produced with the back of the bow. But the more familiar this listener becomes with Schoenberg's devices, the less is he able to be content with the sheer magnificent discoveries of sounds, and the more is he confirmed in his preconception that a work of art demands by nature a connecting tissue alien to Schoenberg's methods...
...merely schematizes a texture common to a variety of chromatic music written today. Chromaticism is merely one of several formulae conducive to an additive set of interrupted expostulations. And what we have, then, is not one work of art, but several, minute fragmentary ones. Only at fleeting instances when Schoenberg suddenly gave symmetry to his expression did its mastery and genius drive home to this prejudiced listener...
...Thursday evening's quartet concert, which features new works by Arnold Schoenberg, Walter Piston, and Bohuslav Martinu written especially for the Symposium, 150 tickets remain of the nearly 500 that were made available yesterday. The concert will be held in Sanders Theatre at 6:15 o'clock...
...evening concerts which will climax each day's work, new compositions by Walter Piston, Arnold Schoenberg, Aaron Copland, and Paul Hindemith will be played by the Walden String Quartet, the Collegiate Chorale of New York...