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Half Time by Bohuslav Martinu seems to mirror in sound the delirium of a football game-bass-drum drop-kicks cannonading, harmonies lining stiffly against each other, breaking, at a signal, into isolated, screaming units. Critics, adopting this theory, compared it favorably to Honegger's Pacific 231 (TIME, Oct. 27). Said Martinu: "As the composer, I beg to state that Half Time is not a sport composition . . . it registers no football game, no whistle of umpire or protests of the crowd. . . . The problem is one of rhythm and construction . . . a reaction against impressionism...
...Swampscott, Mass., is expecting a lively summer once the President arrives there late in June: for the Mayflower will anchor at Marblehead, the Italian Ambassador will be situated at Beverly Farms, the German Ambassador at Magnolia, the Siamese legation at Bass Rocks and members of the British Embassy (Sir Esmé Howard will be abroad) at Manchester...
Sunday evening in Symphony Hall a recital by Feodor Chaliapin, the great Russian bass. As usual Mr. Chaliapin will announce his programme from the concert stage. He will be assisted by Abraham Sepkin, violinist, and Max Rabinovitsch, pianist...
Except for his mishap in French- farcically supposed to have been due to a Democratic professor-John Coolidge has commended himself to the famed little New England College. He will never play on an important varsity team. But he sings first bass in the glee club and may eventually become its leader, although this post usually goes to a tenor. He has been initiated into his father's fraternity (Phi Gamma Delta). He has met with decorum all the customary American assaults upon the dignity of a freshman (they once made him speak half an hour from a soapbox...
...that enchant or dominate the air of Balieff's Bat. From the piercing shriek of Katinka, through the lyric beauty of the soprano, the sombre resignation of the contralto, the passion of the tenor, the expansiveness of the baritone, to that epitome of Slavdom, the resonance of a Russian bass--all were perfection in every register; a complete organ in themselves, though composed only of the vox humana