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Last week at Manhattan's Town Hall, the kitchen strayed into the parlor. For days, white-haired, wispy Composer Bela Bartok, famed Hungarian modernist, had rehearsed the first performance of a Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion Instruments. He and his pretty, blue-eyed wife, Ditta Pasztory, played the piano parts. New York Philharmonic Tympanist Solly Goodman and Cymbal & Gong Virtuoso Henry Denecke, surrounded by seven drums, two pairs of cymbals, a triangle and a xylophone (some of them played with their feet), had grown as skittish as a couple of prima donnas. But by the time they...
...Modernist Architect Walter Gropius invited Klee to teach drawing at his famous Bauhaus technical art school in Weimar. In the middle '20s Parisian surrealists hailed him as a prophet. Frenchmen, usually supercilious toward German art, began collecting his infantile drawings. In 1931 Klee went on to be a professor at the Düsseldorf Academy. Meanwhile, U. S. modern-art connoisseurs bought his ectoplasmic scratchings at $750 a canvas...
Aaron Copland: Two Pieces for String Quartet (Dorian Quartet; Columbia). U. S. Modernist Copland, famed recently for his score to the picture Of Mice and Men, experiments, in these early items, like a tired cook in search of an unprecedented sauce, leaves out the meat...
...whose wooing of Juliet (Ilka Chase) is more like a bombardment than a courtship. In the loudest clothes ever worn by a white man, he cuts loose with a song called A Fugitive from Esquire. As a harassed guide, he attempts to conduct some hooligans through the ''Modernist Room" of the Metropolitan Museum. As a harassed tree surgeon he takes the temperature and sap-pressure of an ailing beech...
...Contrast between Beard and Buell is irresistibly like the contrast between the Fundamentalist and the Modernist points of view. The stern, old-fashioned eloquence is on one side; the massing of evidence on the other. Fundamentalist Beard has a simple image of the world. He writes of international relations as a matter of occasional notes between diplomats of remote nations. Modernist Buell writes of international relations in an era when radio propaganda has supplanted polite diplomatic exchanges. He envisions the world as that shrunken globe seen by Howard Hughes as he flew around it in 91 hours, as Pan-American...