Word: schuman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survive. To fail here will be to fail everywhere. To succeed here will be to prove the truth of the President's words: #We of the United Nations have the power and the men and the will at last to assure man's heritage." FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN...
...contest, held by a musicians' committee "to aid Spanish democracy," was over. The prize had gone to a young, unknown composer, William Schuman, for his Second Symphony. But the promised publication and performance never materialized. One of the sympathetic judges, genial, large-nosed Composer Aaron Copland, sent Schuman a post card, "Why don't you send your score to Serge Koussevitzky?" He did, and within a week got a letter from Koussevitzky asking for the parts. A performance followed that fall. Since then Koussevitzky has championed William Schuman's music. The Boston Symphony introduced his Third Symphony...
...great German romanticist, Robert Schuman, Composer William Schuman is a forthright Manhattan-born Yankee. Son of a lithographer, he started his career as a Tin-Pan Alley composer, collaborating with Frank Loesser in such gems as In Love With the Memory of You. Now he teaches composition and leads the chorus at Sarah Lawrence College...
...works is the American Festival Overture, written for Koussevitzky in 1939, and based on a boys' street call "wee-awk-ee" (meaning "c'mon over"). This month the Overture is out on a record (National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Hans Kindler; Victor). The first major example of Schuman's music on disks, it is a lusty, cleanly written, skin-deep score. No atonalist, William Schuman composes with independent spirit, says of his music, "For better or worse, it sounds the way I want...
...noted that however much the New York Times book department may praise him, the Times has not yet agreed with Professor Schuman in advocating 1) Union Now; 2) immediate abolition of the "political independence" of nations; 3) the crushing of "secessionists or rebels" and the liquidation of troublesome "classes, factions and pressure groups"-and a number of other radical measures, all of which made TIME'S reviewer cry, "Whoa...