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...most original, most compelling of modern composers. Last week in Boston his Symphonic de Psaumes (Symphony of Psalms), in spirit far removed from his sensual celebration of fertility, was given as a part of the Boston Symphony's ambitious semicentennial program. The new Stravinsky takes as text three excerpts from the Psalms (in the English version: Psalm XXXIX, Verses 12, 13; XL: 1, 2, 3; CL complete), uses a chorus to describe in Latin the transition from abject penitence to exultant praise. In the orchestra are no violins, violas or clarinets but five flutes, many other wind instruments, drums...
Sculptor Borglum is an artist before he is a respecter of ex-Presidents. He edited the Coolidge text, added dates, omitted phrases, inserted a reference to Christianity. Historian Coolidge refused to accept the revised version, withdrew from the Memorial Association, refused last week to comment. Sculptor Borglum was less reticent...
...Kent stayed on, painted pictures (some of them on bed-sheets), made friends with the Eskimos, had a good time generally. In the autumn he went home by way of Denmark. Rockwell Kent's pictures in N by E take up almost as much room as the text; it is a superpicturebook. Random House, makers of limited edi tions, have put out a bargain in their unlimited edition of Moby Dick. With 275 Kent drawings, small, well-designed pages, good paper, fine printing (Lakeside Press), it is a revelation of what a publisher can afford to produce with...
...carried the study into its more advanced stages. Besides a History of the Book, the college gives courses on Literary Personalities and Recrestion Reading. The first makes of a book a more personal thing, an expression of the author's individuality, something too often neglected in the study of text books. The second provides valuable knowledge for the selection of a personal library. Rollins is certainly not to be censured for attempting to further this branch of the arts by establishing a professorship for its study...
...observant foreign diplomat said privately afterward, "It was a wedding without the bride." What the Indian Round Table Conference can do is to rehash the Simon Report and another made last week by Viceroy Lord Irwin (see col. 3), write its own report, possibly agree on a draft text for a new Indian Constitution, finally present all this as a fait accompli to the Indian National Congress, Gandhi & Friends...