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...recording of Charles Ives' Third Symphony has been issued by Vanguard. Ives was an American Pioneer who has become the most influencial of domestic composers although he stopped writing over thirty years ago. His music is still too "modern" for many listeners, as he was an experimenter in polytonality, tone-clusters, and polyrhythms. The Third Symphony is one of his most accessible works, and the new recording brings out its surprisingly quiet beauty. Ives is one of the few composers who is American is spirit without being self-conscious about it, and he deserves attention as our first great composer...
...Vanguard. To Barlach the peasants became "symbols of the human situation between Earth and Heaven." In giving the symbols form, Barlach again turned his back on Paris, chose instead to model his peasants in terms of their own traditional wood-carved figures and the Gothic sculpture of his native town. The result, far from seeming a throwback to a bygone style, rapidly placed Barlach in the vanguard of German expressionists...
...SECRET OF DEMOCRACY (258 pp.)-Suzanne Labin-Vanguard...
Vintage Rotgut. For those who want to hear the original version, there is a new Threepenny Opera album in German (Vanguard), fascinating largely because it shows how difficult it is for vintage rotgut to travel. The "chamber orchestra" of the august Vienna State Opera bravely buckles down to the hurdy-gurdy score with its plinky-plink banjos, but it is played with excruciating slowness. The star is a charming Viennese nightclub chanteuse named Liane, who sounds less like Polly Peachum than an operetta shopgirl mooning over an archduke. The record does have its high spots, notably the duet between...
...artists in turn enriched the faith. To help end the separation, the National Council of Churches set up a Department of Worship and the Arts,* and last week the council sent all its member churches a statement described as "a study document." Main point: "The church should have a vanguard of men and women qualified to interpret the significance of contemporary art for the believer ... in terms of Christian criteria...