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Music, is, after all, a psychological medium. One often feels that the less heard from musicians and composers, the better it will be for music in general. Finally, if music be remembered, it should be because of the mood, the mood which transcends all mechanical media and becomes mood for mood's sake...
Music written for harpsichord does often make better sense when played on the instrument for which it was intended. Since the harpsichord seems to have a definite place musically, it is strange that modern composers in their search for new colors and mediums have not attempted to write for it, except in a very few instances (De Falla's Concerto and his puppet-opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, for example), It will be interesting in the future to see whether this instrument will take its place again as a medium of the expression of the time, or will remain...
...Postal system had two main units: the "Land Line System," with a domestic telegraph business, and a cable and radio system to Europe and Latin America. In 1928, Clarence Mackay decided that music was a more interesting medium of communication, sold the system to International Telephone & Telegraph. By June 1935, I. T. & T. was fed up with advancing Postal cash to pay the $2,500,000-a-year interest on its bonds, let it slip into 77-B. Largest independent bondholder: Lehman Bros, (and clients), whose Bondholders Committee finally represented some $30,000,000 (about 60%) of the bonds...
...intended to soothe and placate rather than incite the spectator. Matisse relies mainly upon the sensitivity of his line and the balanced harmony of his color to attain this end; but strangely enough, when he leaves the field of color and portrays a subject through the print medium, his result is the same, namely a rather abstract picture which is neither more nor less than merely pleasant. In his ease, the use of color contributes toward the ultimate effect but is not essential; Matisse is primarily a draftsman and secondarily a painter...
...effective, whether it be clothed in color or not; Rivera cannot because his color is a part of what he is attempting to convey, and without it his work lacks an important element. Matisse's work is emasculated to begin with, so that when he uses an emasculating medium, not much change is noted; Rivera is more of an earthy artist, and his entrance into lithography, which can turn into an unearthy medium, weakens his effect...