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Closed College is sending its band down to play for the rally and at half-time Saturday. During the off-season, the group-calls itself Schneider's Silver Cornet Band...
Gordon L. Brumm '53, H.W.F. president, paul priest '52, and Thomas Schneider '52 will then report on the new organization, whose founding convention they attended this weekend in philadelphia...
...first big boost during the war, when its Sunday-morning concerts from the Library of Congress were broadcast over a national hookup. The broadcasts led to more recital dates-and a big demand for records. The Budapest had made recordings in Europe. "But, my goodness," says Cellist Schneider, "the United States! It sells three or four times as many recordings as the whole world combined." Long-playing records ("just perfect for chamber music") have quadrupled the sale of the Budapest's music...
...found some listeners eager for modern cacophonies and "deeper stuff," adds a smattering here & there of late Beethoven, Bartok and Schoenberg. Four U.S. composers whose music has been added to the repertory this year: Lukas Foss, Quincy Porter, Walter Piston and Samuel Barber. Television? Not yet, says Spokesman Schneider. "Why would people want to sit in the living room and see only four men sitting on chairs pulling bows? But gradually TV will take the place of radio. People will not want to be without chamber music. It is sure to come...
Miller occasionally faces sharp criticism from serious musicians. When the pressure of the pop business made him pass up a chance to play with Cellist Pablo Casals at the Prades Festival, Miller's friend, Violinist Alexander Schneider rebuked him, called him a traitor to good music. Miller took it with a mild objection: "Why, I'm playing oboe better now than ever before...