Word: modernists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...modernist Composer Ernest Bloch is resigned to the fact that he is quite an old man. He lives in semi-retirement at Agate Beach, Ore., gathering and polishing beach stones, gardening and caring for his mushrooms. He still composes regularly, but has unwrapped no major scores since his Concerto Symphonique three years ago. "I am no giant of a man like [78-year-old] Winston Churchill," he says...
...Pittsburgh last week, modern music was heard, loud and clear. The occasion: the city's first International Contemporary Music Festival. For a total of 15 hours, the rafters of two concert halls rang with the peculiarly bright and gloomy, slick and perverse sounds of modernist music. At times, the cacophonies seemed to be competing with the harsh melody of Pittsburgh's blast furnaces. Most of it was tried and (often) true music that has been played for the past 25 years, but on some of the scores the ink was hardly dry. Among the musical nuggets...
...cultured people, some of whom doubtless are fairly wealthy, Dr. Schweitzer ministers to African natives untaught in the ways of polite society, ignorant, poor, and unable to repay him except in the coin of gratitude and love. But by Dr. Macartney's doctrinal standards, Dr. Schweitzer is a modernist, a heretic ... He denies many of the basic doctrines that to Dr. Macartney are essential elements of Christianity...
Orthodoxy & Battlefields. Moderator Macartney had led the fight of Presbyterian fundamentalists (he prefers the term "orthodox") to oust the Rev. Harry Emerson Fosdick, leading theological modernist, from the pulpit of Manhattan's First Presbyterian Church. Attracted by Macartney's reputation, Pittsburgh Presbyterians asked him, in 1927, to take over the ministry of their own First Church, long one of the most influential in U.S. Presbyterianism...
...student of famed Critic Bernard Berenson and the youngest man (30) ever to direct Britain's National Gallery, he hopes to do his best for both conservatives and moderns. Said he: "I am probably one of the few men living who likes both Sir Alfred Munnings and [Modernist] Graham Suterland...