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William Billings: American Psalms and Fuguing Tunes (The Madrigalists, Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). One-eyed William Billings, Boston tanner and self-taught musician, wrote his "fuguing tunes" (not fugues but canons, like Three Blind Mice) for 18th-Century churchgoers. Long in disuse, Billings' choral works have been republished by Music Press Inc., a new Manhattan firm much of whose output is recorded by Columbia. Included in the album is Billings' chesty Chester, favorite of Revolutionary soldiers...
Best-known South American composer is Heitor Villa-Lobos, talkative, self-taught Brazilian, a man of tremendous energy who has written more than 1,400 pieces, and has said, "Better bad of mine than good of others." Last week, in connection with a big show of paintings by Brazil's Candido Portinari (TIME, Aug. 12), Manhattan's enterprising Museum of Modern Art did up Brazil's music in a package of six concerts. The Museum's elegant audiences and radio listeners gathered that African thumps and easygoing Portuguese tunes were Brazil's chief heritage. Wherever...
...more violent theories of socialism were already supplanting these gentle persuaders whom Karl Marx contemptuously dubbed "the Utopians." P.J. Proudhon, self-taught son of a barrelmaker, declared: "Property is theft." Burly, bearded Russian Michael Bakunin was transmuting his biologic impotence into an ardent anarchism-of-the-deed that longed to send the whole world up in smoke. "The desire to destroy," wrote Bakunin, "is also a creative desire." Finding some peasants milling around a German castle one day, he hopped out of his carriage, filled them so quickly with creative desire that when he took his seat again, the castle...
Grant Wood's successor as mentor to young lowans is a youngish (36), tough-looking, tough-talking, tough-painting, handle-bar-mustached artist, Fletcher Martin. A husky onetime sailor and boxer, Martin is largely self-taught. His first oils and water colors, shown in San Diego in 1934, were done in his spare time as a printing pressman. The gobs and prize fighters Fletcher Martin used to sketch still flex their heavy muscles in his canvases; his Trouble in Frisco-sailors slugging, seen through a porthole-is owned by Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
...Negro trumpeter named William B. Horner Jr. Last week, Trumpeter Horner's name was on the list of 84 winners announced by Conductor Stokowski in Manhattan. The other players, although they came from all over the U. S., were by no means all young, or cornfed, or self-taught. There were young players from recognized orchestras, students from conservatories like Philadelphia's Curtis Institute, 14 players from around New York...