Word: modernist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as his bustling Concerto Grosso was about to be heard for the first time-in Vienna-the Nazis arrived. Then the same thing happened in Prague; then in Paris. Last week, at last, Bohuslav Martinu, Czech modernist composer, heard the much-applauded premiere of his concerto, played by Serge Koussevitzky and his Symphony-in Boston, before the Nazis arrived...
...also dominant in his relaxations, among them poetry. One of his favorite poets is Longfellow, whom he can spout by the yard, accurately and with feeling. If an occasional modernist happens in while Rube Fleet is declaiming his favorites, that is just too bad for the modernist. Rube Fleet knows what he likes, and likes...
...chamber orchestra conducted by Composer Schönberg, with recitation by Erika Stiedry-Wagner; Columbia; 8 sides; $4.50). Twenty-one poems of Albert Giraud are wailed and caterwauled in musical speech (Sprechstimme) to the fevered sounds of eight strings and woodwinds (in various combinations). Modernist Schönberg's jittery measures, more talked about than listened to (Pierrot has had only two U.S. performances), here get their first recording, a fine example of what, 30 years ago, began to ail 20th-century music...
...disciple of Atonalist Arnold Schonberg), sounds like tortured, caterwauling doubletalk. But in this concerto, his atonalism is for once eloquent and heartfelt; it is Composer Berg's elegy on the death of his friend Manon Gropius, daughter of famed Architect Walter Gropius. The Clevelanders and Modernist Krasner give a stirring performance...
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Volume I (Béla Bartók, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Hungarian Modernist Bartók neatly pecks out some of the 153 pungent, tricky-rhythmed pieces from his Mikrokosmos (little world), which he composed for piano students-much as Gertrude Stein might write an English grammar...