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Deems Taylor, clever American musicmaker, has written a score for the cinema (TIME, Aug. 4). The innovation has been duplicated in France; Darius Milhaud, one of the leaders of Paris's younger set of tonal wits, has composed the musical accompaniment to the new picture L'lnhumaine, which features Mme. Georgette Leblanc...
Music has displayed a certain reluctance to explore the frozen North. It was not until the time of Grieg that the possibilities of a tonal invasion of Arctic wastes and peoples was recognized. Percy Grainger and MacDowell have made tentative advances into the interpretation of the spirit of snow-lands. But it has remained for a Danish disciple of the Norwegian Grieg to bring forth a full-fledged, large-proportioned evocation of Eskimo life, of its strange superstitions and frigid passions...
...that he has produced a score that may be fittingly placed on the same shelf with MacDowell's lovely little Marionettes and John Alden Carpenter's Adventures in a Perambulator. These masterpieces of children's music are perhaps America's most substantial achievements in tonal...
There followed another tonal translation, Rip Van Winkle's Homeward Journey-Washington Irving in terms of Herr Dr. Richard Strauss, by one William Schroeder...
...orchestra of seventy-five pieces will make the trip to Springfield where the concert will be held under the auspices of the local Y. M. C. A. Featured numbers on the program include Mendelssohn's Overture to "Fingal's Cave" in which the Pierian exhibits qualities of ensemble and tonal color not usually found except in professional orchestras, and the Prelude to "The Deluge" of Saint-Saens...