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First on the program were three duets from the Baroque Cantatas, followed by two motets. Four love songs of Johannes Brahms were later presented. The concluding number was the second part from the contemporary American composer William Schuman's "A Free Song...
When the critics made up their minds, they had ruled out Roy Harris' "agricultural" Fifth Symphony (TIME, March 8), Aaron Copland's melodramatic Lincoln Portrait, William Schuman's timely but tiresome Prayer-1943, Morton Gould's featherweight Spirituals for String, Choir and Orchestra. The award went to Manhattan-born Paul Creston, 36, for his neat, rather brittle, and relatively old-fashioned First Symphony...
Other awards: Poet Robert Frost, for The Witness Tree; Esther Forbes, for her history, Paul Revere; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison, for his biography, Admiral of the Ocean Sea, a life of Columbus; Composer William Schuman, for Secular Cantata, No. 2, A Free Song...
...clearly Joseph Freeman's hope, in his first novel, to write a political and spiritual history of the 20th Century to date. His hero, Paul Schuman, a middle-class Viennese, thinks and feels along this century's grand median line of liberal optimism. He suffers, like many of the century's most symbolic men, in a concentration camp. He escapes, as most of them have not, to the U.S., where hope and war are relatively fresh, and where, with a psychoanalyst's help, he becomes fit for new fighting...
...Schuman is a historian, concentrated-evidently like his author-not only on the vision of freedom, but also on those obstacles to freedom which seem intrinsic in the very effort to achieve it. When he is telling his own story, he offers a perhaps too facile newsreel of the past two decades." When he is talking history and quoting-he quotes, it seems, nearly every man who has ever written well, usually very aptly-Never Call Retreat becomes as rich an anthology of ravenous reading as ever disguised itself as a novel. When he is talking politics, or living them...