Concert Season Shows America Becoming Center of World Music
STEFAN, Dr. PAUL
Concert Season Shows America Becoming Center of World Music By Dr. PAUL STEFAN UOW far and in what ways has the war a*f-* * fee ted the* current musk season ? Hardly at all. In fact it is safe...
...A good deal has been done for the American composers this season—without, it must be confessed, bringing to light any new work of special significance...
...It is a pity that such an important concert as that in which Herman Adler gave us the complete cycle of Smetana's My Fatherland was not relayed to the radio audience...
...The workshop for the manufacture of~ clothing for the relief services of the American Red Cross, t he British War Relief Society and aids to allied nations is now located in Room 505 of the People's House, 7 East 15th St., N.Y.C...
...East Flatbush Branch I.—9th anniversary banauet and dance, Saturday, Jan...
...Kis two assistants $6,000, more than most state governors...
...Signed by Josip Srebrenic, Catholic Bishop of the Island of Krk, and addressed to Luigi Mag-lione, Secretary of State of the Holy See, the letter pleads for the intervention of the Head of the Catholic Church, warning that "the Croatian people lose their faith in the Catholic Church and their devotion to the Holy Father, and at the same time they are conscious that Communism holds -out both arms to them in this- See and is the sole force that protects them against the Italians...
...It is tax-free and, like the Water Resources, CommunhmOuBS and Transportation Authorities, may float a $500,000,000 bond issue...
...On the air we hear, too, the concerts of the City Symphony Orchestra (with various conductors...
...Conference will convene at 7 East llth St...
...9, at 8 p. m...
...NATIONAL National...
...branches...
...The djiuua'ruau says, it enables the government to "rum private business," which must pay taxes in addtneaj to operating with a smaller capitalised structure...
...Ultimately the plan is to take over cables, telephone, telegraph and radio...
...The supporters of the government say, these are merely logical extensions and iatoB* cations of New Deal policy...
...Up to the present moment what have been the high points of the season's concert musk ? First of all, the two Berlioz presentations by the Philharmonic must be counted in...
...The opponents of Tug-well point out that for months no reporter eouM get any news from any heads of government departments except through John Lear, the Coordinator, who gave out his releases and did not permit interviews with other officials...
...Tug-well's opponents say that it is overcapitalized and that it may destroy the sugar industry by cutting up the big efficknt sugar interests...
...Women's Committee...
...There we are entertained by Quartet (which now, naturally has slight con-various string organizations, the Budapest nection with Budapest, which is no disadvantage') and the American Coolidge Quartet...
...And aH of them—all of them—played Shosta-kovitch...
...HARTFORD, Conn.—The New England district convention of tfef Jewish Socialist Verband will be held at the Workmen's Circle Labor Lyceum...
...C. — The United States Department of Jus-tke has been formally requested to investigate the activities of the sheriff's office in Spartanburg and the city polke in connection with a recent labor dispute at Draper Corporation here...
...And I Wish especially to emphasize a fact, brought home to us every night this season, that we now have enough American artists, for the most part native-born, who are developing remarkably and who will soon be ready to take over the heritage of the great European tradition...
...with Toscanini Madame Tourel and the tenor, Gerard, with Rodzinski Jarmila Novo.tn...
...Social and Card Party, Saturday, Jan...
...22—Elias Tartak...
...8, 8:30 p. m.—Anup Singh, "Britain's Last Chance in India...
...Program for January: Friday, Jan...
...7, 8:30 p. m., at the Second Avenue Theatre...
...Meyer London Branch raised a considerable sum for the Allied War Relief agencies at its well-ettended meeting last Saturday...
...25-26-27...
...We no whave here the great directors and virtuosi of instruments and song...
...Discussion on affiliation with trade union political organisations and on matters coming before the National Conference...
...2—The Land Authority which was set up to carry through the agricultural program under the provisions of the older 500-acre law...
...City Central Committee, Wednesday, Jait...
...The fact that this is a war season is refletbsd in the fact that the Metropolitan Opera has announced a reduction of admission pittas' but exclusively in the upper brackets...
...Fnanceeratg amjeihors —besides the violinists Herfetz and *tH«tg»ii, who may new be fairly considered Amerkaas...
...The result speaks for itself...
...6—The Planning, Urbanizing and Zoning Board whkh seeks to control the building, sale or change of land use in Puerto Rico, and which has provisions for a Master Plan and a Six-Year Financial Plan which would control matters like construction and industrial expansion in the island...
...It is merely a matter of organization...
...His executive apparatus is under fire, his legislative influence widely covu"emr.ed...
...A NT) what about the opera...
...Lear contends that his office justifies its cost by its services to the public in bringing about its orientation to important government policies and heiping reduce the burdens on other officials...
...New York City...
...16, g:30 p. m., at 362 East 51st St., Brooklyn...
...Room 200...
...A "thick, useless bureaucracy" is thriving on an impoverished body-politic...
...Celebration arid house warming will be held on Tuesday, Jan...
...What we are experiencing is a normal winter of music...
...Benefit: City Office/Emergency Fund...
...most top salaries hover between these two figures...
...This week according to the Administration opposition Governor' Rex Tug-well shapes up as a "Mussolini...
...Kousse-vitsky I regard as completely American...
...28, at the Rand School Studio...
...Tugwell's opponents say he has filled his agencies with incompetents, overpaid them (top head of the Land Authority gets $8,000...
...This, oppo-nents hold, is the most "dangerous" agency fostered by Tugwell, especially since m eouahk nation with it is set up: 7—The Development Company, whkh can borrow funds from the Bank to engage ia any industry seen fit for the better welfare of the public by the government...
...26, at the Workmen's Circle School, 1208 Manor Ave., Bronx...
...Actually, how*er, ft hi LutomatoeL far' as this report is written Jtomdamm, d tors-awn on the Flrdermaus,, ia still being performed...
...A handsome sum wee raised for the S.D.F...
...29—Elias Tartak, "War and Peace by Tolstoy...
...Send questions to the S.D.F...
...An interesting program is being arranged...
...It would be less than just to overlook the numerous fine recordings which are reproduced day in and tag .sua by Station WQXR This is a form of musical production winch educates the pubnc tastom41 high degree and which is to be found aeMate else in the world...
...i**_toe, concerts ef toe agent fatoUffi pass m review...
...membership -meeting on January 15, 8:30 p. m., at the Workmen's Circle Labor Lyceum, 415 S. 19th St...
...Aamffce performance was even better than last year...
...The New Opera Company has just closed tta ssestof Jeer mt activity...
...A number of resolutions deal with the international situation, post-war problems, the present political situation in the U.S.A., a program for SJXF., polit-jtll action and many other questions...
...to 3 p. m. and on/ Wednesday evenirgs...
...It is true that we have not in every respect rsateen the high point which we might hope to attain with all of the abundant means at our disposal...
...East Side Oldtimers' Reunion, held |sst Saturday at the Hotel Biltmbrei was very successful...
...In fact it is safe to say that New York is becoming more and more the center of the world's musk...
...that with a fiscal budget of $100,000, it is one ef the costliest planning boards in the nation...
...Admission 49 cents...
...6—The Development Bank was set up as a governmental bank in which the entire income of the Ir«rlar government might be deposited o "help in the realization of the complete development of the human and economic seeoupses of Puerto Rico...
...Although it is prepared' fee-action with a $500,000 appropriation, debts of the bank do net accrue to toe government ia case the bank becomes insolvent...
...PHILADELPHIA,Pa.—Seminar of the Labor Educational Center, 415 S. lttth St...
...2-23-24...
...They are definitely a work of genius despite the fact that in spots they may seem strange or even weak...
...that it hasn't done s thing since it was started months ago...
...William Karlin will speak on "America and the New Order" at the Upper West Side Branch, Monday, Jan...
...161 West 75th St., New York City...
...The United States of America is the Music Land of the future...
...The opponents contend that a great sum of money was spent acquiring a set of dilapidated busses which will be obsolete as soon as the armistice permits importation of serviceable equipment...
...Tickets at S2, $1.50 and $1 can be obtained in the City Office, 7 East 16th St, N.Y.C., and at all1 SJDJ...
...Tugwell's opponents my the Board has planners who don't know say thing about their joes...
...The adaptation goes back to Max Reinhartft, musically to E. W, Koragold...
...that there is something radically wrong with a* set-up which permits the government to collect taxes, loan its funds to one of ita own atmdt and use that money and that agency by urn and without legislative consent to biosoau inroads into "successful and legitimate private* enterprise," owned by citizens who ,psy ntmry' of the taxes used to drive them out of business...
...We are standing up under a severe test and we shall come through with credit...
...Warn Vatican On Atrocities A letter to the Vatican, warning toht faith in the Catholic Church is being undermined as a result of atrocities being inflicted by Catholic Italian soldiers upon their fellow-Catholics of the civilian population la Italian-occupied Dalmatia, has just been re-reived from Croatia through underground channels by the Royal Yugoslav government in New York, it was announced by the Royal Yugoslav Government Information Center...
...Toscanini has offered an exclusively American program, including Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue...
...A permanent organization of Socialist* active in the 6th A. D., New York, 26 years ago, is one of the results of this gathering...
...PHILADELPHIA, Ps^-General SS).F...
...In affidavits submitted with the request, the various union members testified as to their difficulties and charged that they were arrested simply because they were union members...
...There have already been several sold-out houses, partteu-larly a performance of Don Gio-vani under the baton of Walter, Stiedry, Leinsdarf and meaty others from the atmosphere of a Vienna' which is no more...
...Tugwell supporters insist that it is good and needed for efficiency...
...Lotte Lehmann and Emanuel List...
...A good deal of Haydn—and it comes through sometimes as a revelation...
...Jan...
...We had jr>o ftmpwr **ai stiansa," Adolf Busch, HofceTsaSfl...
...Tugwell's opponents argue the act is "sheer, unconstitutional expropriation" (save in the telegraph's instance, already under Insular control and operating under an annua) deficit, due, these opponents continue, to the great amount of free service furnished the government...
...The National S.D.F...
...Then came the Cleveland Orchestra...
...23, 8 p. m., at Mollie's Restaurant, 85 Second Ave., N.Y.C...
...Frederick Jagel and, as Mephisto, Pints, Both had the services of the Westminster Choir of Princeton, a really extraordinary organization...
...Here is the picture— Tugwell has set up the following agencies, all established since his inauguration two months before Pearl Harbor: 1—The Office of the Coordinator of Information...
...The interpretation by Toscanini was an especially glorious one...
...4, 8:90 p. m., in toe home of Sophie Turbow...
...PAUL STEFAN UOW far and in what ways has the war a*f-* * fee ted the* current musk season ? Hardly at all...
...Some difficulties and errors are pointed up, others are grossly exaggerated...
...William Karlin addressed' the gathering...
...Finally, we had Weeest...
...A little while ago the White Star Bus Line of San Juan was taken over...
...East Flatbush Branch II.—10th anniversary banquet, Saturday, Jan...
...Amdhg: the speakers were Charles Grossman, Judge Jacob Panken, Sidney Stark, Abe Beckerman, William Karlin, Louis Waldman, Algernon Lee and August Claessens...
...Between the quartet performances the most distinguished soloists— such as Schnabel and Huberman...
...Most of his symphonies have been given a hearing—the new Seventh four or five...
...Nor has much land been distributed as yet...
...Seventh Anniversary Ball and Reunion at the Debs Auditorium, Saturday, April 24...
...The pair of them hart operated so cleverly and charmingly tost they have not touched the music of Johann Strauss but have distinctly improved a libretto which was suffering from the weaknesses of old-age...
...7; Algernon Lee Testimonial Banquet at the Hotel Commodore, Sunday, Jan...
...6. * * * 1 Annual Theatre...
...The government does not assume responsibility if the company defaults...
...Koussevitsky played it gloriously with toe Boston Orchestra...
...Question Box, 7 East 15th Street, New YYork City...
...If we take into account what/ great changes have been wrought by the war, toss speaks volumes for the energy and musical enthusiasm of this city and this nation...
...This agency, composed of a "Coordinator" and assistants for a period of two months, was set up to round up the government news and release it to the press...
...It gave us again La Vie Parisienne of On*tBm»A» JM mV chanting piece which never grows eM...
...Another objection raised by the press here was that the Coordinator's office cost the taxpayers $25,000 yearly, that Lear, a former newspaperman, was making $6,000 per annum, and that arl assistant was getting $3,600, when unemployment was very bad...
...Napoleon at the Chan-nek" Jan...
...City Chairman Karlin will speak between the acts...
...These scores are not opera, not oratorio and not symphony—and yet they partake of the qualities of all three...
...The , list of our desires is not a short one, hut this shall be left for d iscussion on a future dcoasiett...
...the singers Elisabeth Schumann...
...Leon Blum Branch meets on Monday, Dec...
...Pfcim-delphia Orchestra appeared with Ormandy (and Toocenini...
...7 East T5th Street...
...So much for the Tugwell agencies under Are, The "dangers" objected to by TugwelTs opponents were potential rather than actual, since little has been done actively by any of the sgon-cies...
...CONNECTICUT...
...3—The Communications Authority which was set up to control all communication in, to or from the island...
...IN the series of Philharmonic concerts the dis-tinguished directors perform in relays: after Toscanini, Walter (a beautiful performance of the First Symphony of Mahler), then Barlow, and new Jftoopooks is taking over...
...The radio is performing a great service to the music world by sending out each week at least one concert of the New York Philharmonic...
...Tugwell's New Deal Apparatus Under Fire in Puerto Rico Fight By JACK MATCHA Special Correspondence SAN JUAN, P. R.—The charges are flying thick and fast...
...As explained, this program has not gone far enough to allow either side to call it a success or failure...
...the deficit has averaged $67,000 for ten years...
...Now we have them all: Toscanini, Walter, Rodzinski...
...Leon Blum Branch Holds Meeting December 28th The Leon Blum branch of the S.D.F...
...But even that can be done...
...NEW YORK CITY Costing Events: Theatre Party, Thursday, Jan...
...Program on Station WEVD, Saturday, Dec...
...Ask Probe of Anti-Union Violence in South SPARTANBURG, ,6...
...28, 9 p. m., at 844 Utica Ave., Brooklyn...
...5, at 1 p. m. ' • • * • S.D.F...
...Even before these latest changes at least half of the great directors belonged" to this country...
...the pianists Horowits, Rachmaninoff and Sterkin...
...J* * City Executive Committee will meet Wednesday, Dec 30...
...Toscanini conducted the seldom-heard musk from the opera, Romeo and Juliet...
...Flatbush-Central Branch meets Monday, Dec...
...For example, having the part of Prince Orlofsky played by a man merely puts an end to a former malpractice, and Oscar Karlmeisg embodies a typical serenissimus in really delightful style...
...Benefit, Local New York: Thursday, Jan...
...Orchestras such as those which belong to the New York music world or which visit here regularly now hardly exist in Europe, and in any case it can no longer be said that the best of Europe are better than ours...
...Some times, it is true, these Sunday afternoon programs are a bit too much on the sure-fire side...
...This work in its entirety we are privileged to hear not even once in every decade...
...SDF News Persons ?nf erested In Social Democratic Ideas and inter-gjted In receiving literature about the Social Democratic movement, should write to two Social Democratic Federa-fto...
...The New Opera has taker fine advantage of the successes of its first season...
...For the present we—producers, performers, audience, critics, observers—should all be well content...
...In both cases we had top-flight soloists...
...It is altogether fitting that much of these programs should be regularly broadcast over the air...
...will hold a membership meeting and social, Monday, December 28, 8 p. m., at the Rand School Studio, 7 E. 15th Street, New York, N. Y. After the meeting there will be refreshments, entertainment and dancing...
...Conference agenda and resolutions are now prepared and the sub-committees are making final revisions for printing and mailing to locals and branches tfcwighout the country...
...Secretary of the Southern Workers Defense League, in a letter to Vktor Rotnem, Chief of the Civil Liberties Unit, Justice Department, asking for an investigation, charged that seven union members had been arrested by county and city police, charged with conspiracy after being held incommunicado the greater part of a day...
...From now on our city may well declare its musical independence of Europe...
...Rodzinski gave us The Damnation of Faust, more often heard and even closer to opera...
...In Paris it is given in operatic form...
...26, at 9:45 p. m.: Algernon Lee presides and answers questions on international, national and municipal affairs...
...4—The Transportation Authority, set up again, to assimilate for "efficiency's sake the whole system of communication...
...I am naming only those of whose European origin we are still conscious— and I mention them only because I wish to pose the question: Why should we in America still feel any need in the future of calling on Europe for concert artists...
...A new musical comedy-with Menashe Skulnik and an all-star cast...
...Tbe chairman i-eceives a salary of $8,000 and...
...Draper Corporation is an iron foundry which employs several hundred white and'colored workers /who are members of the Moulders' Union (AM...
...the head of the Department of Agriculture gets $6,000...
...So far, the telegraph is the only one under government control now...
...Reiner, Ormsndy, Mitropoudos...
...Then came the Queen of Spades at TachaikWetoe/, this time conducted by Cooper, a net amfta Russian director...
...All that remains is to make it the land of the opera...
...New York City, Jan...
...Robert Bobrick is chairman and Leon Dennen educational director of the branch...
...The first big move, the expropriation Of the Hydro-Electric Company, has still not been fully settled...
...refreshments, etc...
...Scores of volunteers are busily at work dailyTrhm Monday through ThursdayfromAlO a. ra...
...The busses lack new tires and need much repair...
...To which the answer comes that a widening sphere of government activity requires new agencies, just as the New Deal does in Washington...
...Tugwell's supporters point out, it is needed to bring some self-sufficiency to the island and to help remove the bad housing conditions and urban pattern...
...Rafael Abramowitch Branch.— Installation of officers, celebration and banquet, Saturday, Dec...
...The National Broadcasting Company, as everyone knows, has its own exceptionally fine orchestra for broadcasting purposes and has, once more, "Toscanini as conductor—along with Stokowski...
...Frank McCallister...
...Along with it he gave as a new symphony by the talented Czech composer Martin u. a work which satisfied all of the high expectations with which it had been awaited...
...jee of the most remarkable of toe operas ef vVmdi and one which has long been unknown f» flam country...
...August Claessens will speak at a number of Workmen's Circle branches in Bridgeport, Stamford, Waterbury sad other cities on week-ends in January...
...The order was rescinded finally on October 22, after very much unfavorable publicity from the press, but relations between the press and Lear are still bad...
...The best chamber musk we have heard at the Sunday afternoon concerts of the New Friends of Music...
Vol. 25 • December 1942 • No. 52
