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...best to fill Toscanini's shoes. The orchestra tried to help him by pulling its punches. But before the first season was over, it was obvious even to Carnegie Hall's ushers that the fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
Meanwhile Manhattanites, who were prepared to dismiss Frederick Stock's orchestra with kindly condescension, got the jolt of their symphonic season. Admitted the Post's Critic Samuel Chotzinoff: "In the balance between its choirs the Chicagoans conform to the best standards set by the country's major orchestras." Crowed Critic Thomson: "Mr. Stock won his audience ... as he has won audiences for 35 years, by playing them music very beautifully, not by wowing them." At last week's end, the traveling Philharmonikers were still on the road. But back in Manhattan worried directors were sadly pondering...
...symphony which Philadelphia heard last week sounded as if Shostakovich's seat were secure-even though the symphony lacked a choral apotheosis of Lenin which the composer had originally planned. Unorthodox in symphonic form, its three movements were: slow, fast, faster. The last movement reminded one Philadelphia critic (Edwin H. Schloss of the Record) of "Comrade John Philip Sousa, in blouse and boots...
These 13 relentless, triple-chilled critical essays are not for easy readers. Critic Blackmur's key word is responsibility-the responsibility of a writer to be no less than excellent in both matter and manner. Always tortuously, often brilliantly, he applies his implacable test to great and near-great men: Hardy, Yeats, T. E. Lawrence, Melville, Henry Adams, Housman, Thomas Wolfe, others...
Granville Hicks, noted leftist author and literary critic, will speak to the American Civilization Group tonight at 7:30 o'clock in the Freshman Union on "The present crisis and the American literary mind...