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...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...
FREDERICK L. SCHUMAN...
...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...
...Schuman would not stop with Union Now of Britain and the U.S. He would also bring Russia and others into the Union. For if the democracies cannot unite the world, he warns, the Nazis can and will-and their union will not include the parliament of man and the federation of the world. "The ambitious Caesars of the totalitarian states, almost alone among contemporary rulers, have faced the problem of unifying the world and have acted to achieve a solution." Ugly as it is, Schuman thinks "the Pax Germanica beckons the majority of men," since it offers a solution more...