Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...1920s the tide of musical revolution hit U. S. shores and modernism half-drowned the U. S. intelligentsia. Modernist music was featured prominently on symphonic programs from coast to coast...
...Philharmonic-Symphony and other U. S. orchestras ended their winter symphonic seasons, it became apparent that the trend away from modernism was also affecting U. S. concert programs. Of the 41 compositions by contemporary composers performed last season by the Philharmonic-Symphony, only six or seven showed modernistic tendencies. Compared with programs of ten years ago the past season in Manhattan, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago showed an appreciable decline in the number of modernist composers represented. Since 1935 activities of Manhattan's League of Composers, modernism's principal U. S. stronghold, have fallen off sharply...
Among the big figures of the modernist musical movement, many, including Stravinsky, Schönberg, and Prokofieff, are today writing a much milder and more melodious type of music than they were in modernism's heyday. In a current article in Musical America Atonalist Ernest Krenek sighed for the good old days of musical revolution. Wailed Composer Krenek: "Moderns are saying atonality is passe. Most contemporary music is reactionary...
...past, 44-year-old Composer Piston's dry, academic, cacophonous works have drawn hosannas from modernist theoreticians rather than from music-hungry audiences. But even conservatives have admitted that he seemed to know what he was doing, and seemed to be doing it with relentless determination...
...effects of free lunch on various forms of artistic appreciation (see p. 54). Psychologist Razran's conclusions indicated that with enough free lunch "you can practically make an individual like anything." He admitted that it took one subject five lunches before she liked the piano music of Modernist Aaron Copland. "But she did come to like it, and after she did, gave all sorts of reasons why it was beautiful...