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Complete Musician. Hindemith was a composer's composer-and a complete musician. He wrote music, as Albert Einstein once said, "as a tree bears fruit"-great bushels of music, turned out in orderly, workmanlike style. He was a concert violist and pianist, a competent player of every other instrument...
This spiritual bulletin appears in France's "Christian review" Esprit (most of whose editors are Roman Catholics), in a special issue devoted to La Sexualité. The magazine's contributors take it for granted that a "sexual revolution" has taken place, citing, among other examples, the "new wave...
The stubby little man stood firmly on the stage, drawing music with shaking, clenched fists from the choirs ranged on either side of a horseshoe balcony. Later, he picked up a three-string vielle (old-style fiddle) and joined two other instrumentalists and a singer in an expert per" formance...
As for Hindemith's performance on the vielle, it was as masterly as might be expected from a man who can play every instrument in the orchestra and who was once considered one of the world's leading viola virtuosos (as a soloist and a member of the...
The Play of Daniel (New York Pro Musica; Decca). In a fascinating excursion into the Middle Ages, the nation's most avid collectors of musical antiquities present an early church musical drama in the original Latin text. The vocal parts suggest everything from Gregorian chant to folk song, the...