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Helping Seidman on the report are William P. Bernton '41, Arthur Kinoy '41, Lawrence Lader '41, Charles S. Bridge '42, Frank Fussner '42, and William M. Thomson...
...STATE OF Music-Virgil Thomson -Morrow...
...punches. But before the first season was over, it was obvious even to Carnegie Hall's ushers that the fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
...prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering its Chicago defeat, wondering...
After listening to the Philharmonic, elegant Mr. Thomson headed his review Age Without Honor. He shrugged at its Beethoven, compared its Elgar with "that massively frivolous patchwork in pastel shades of which one sees such quantities in any intellectual British suburban dwelling." Calling Sibelius "vulgar, self-indulgent and provincial," he stated that he had never met a Sibelius-lover among "educated professional musicians." In Critic Thomson's sum: "The music . . . was soggy, the playing dull and brutal. As a friend remarked who had never been to one of these concerts before, 'I understand now why the Philharmonic...