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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chromatic Wonderland. Though Schoenberg, along with his fellow Southern Californian, Igor Stravinsky, is one of the great musical innovators of modern times, few listeners are ready yet to say that they really like Schoenberg's ear-hurting music-and certainly no one is whistling any of his tunes. Forty years ago, after he had written his popular, Wagnerish Transfigured Night (which Antony Tudor used successfully for his ballet Pillar of Fire), Schoenberg had put conventional, barbershop-type harmony far behind him, and plunged into a chromatic wonderland where all twelve tones in an octave are of equal value...
...political blemish on him. He holed up on his 17th Century Vouvray estate (where he also makes wine), refused to play for the Germans, and stalled them off on the production of a new ballet, Les Animaux Modèles, by telling them repeatedly: "Ah, it is not yet finished." Now finished, it is a Parisian favorite...
...devoted there would be compensations. Talk about 'building bridges of understanding'! The Iron Curtain cuts off Russia and central Europe, but it has not yet been demonstrated that there is an Oriental Iron Curtain. Perhaps China is the one place on the globe where an imaginative church, with great experience of the land, could be a leaven able to penetrate the brittle hardtack of Communism...
...People Free (by Dorothy Heysvard; produced by the Theatre Guild) rewrites a forgotten episode of history-an aborted Negro uprising in early 19th Century Charleston. It is honest and occasionally eloquent. Yet the drama it promises never quite blazes forth, and its large themes are never really vitalized...
Sherwood would not deny his bias in favor of Roosevelt and Hopkins, yet it is a bias frequently dissolved by candor. There is enough in these pages to explain why Hopkins was feared and hated by men of all parties. Noting that Harry "was addicted to the naked insult," Sherwood quotes Hugh Johnson without disapproval : "He has a mind like a razor, a tongue like a skinning knife, a temper like a Tartar and a sufficient vocabulary of parlor profanity-words kosher enough to get by the censor but acid enough to make a mule-skinner jealous...