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...ressant." Pudgy Violinist Isaac Stern agreed. He had "worked and worked until the music was part of me." When his fiddling was finished, he grinned up into the balcony of Symphony Hall, then hammed his exit offstage, staggering as if brutally exhausted. Up in the balcony, smiling Composer William Schuman seemed satisfied with the rehearsal for the world premiere of his first concerto for violin and orchestra...
...Schuman, who still finds time to compose despite his duties as president of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and director of publications for music publishers G. Schirmer, Inc., did not quite want to say his latest work was his best: "I have no stepchildren; if I slighted one work, it would feel hurt." But he had tried to compose a work "on the highest musical plane, exploiting the virtuosity of the violin and not just showing it off." The concerto had, he said, "a good deal of melody-and melody is the bread and butter of music...
Last week Boston symphony-goers got to hear the concerto too. What they heard was quite different from the somewhat eclectic Symphony No. 2 of Schuman they had first heard twelve years ago-and rewarded with "practically silence," as Schuman remembers it. A man who used to compose with one ear to Hindemith and Roy Harris (his teacher), the other sometimes to Atonalist Alban Berg, Schuman seemed to have found a little more of a style...
France's Foreign Minister Robert Schuman visited Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of the West German Federal Republic at Bonn last week. The two men talked in secret-"unter vier Augen" (under four eyes)-as Lorrainer Schuman, a former German soldier...
During the meeting, headlines in the demagogic sectors of the French and German press yipped about the Saar issue. Afterwards, Adenauer disclosed that he had reaffirmed Germany's claim to the Saar; Schuman said he had told Adenauer that France viewed the Saar as a point on the peace-treaty agenda...