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**Pages 263-264: Remi Gassmann, Jubilee Wind-Up"
**Pages 263-264: Remi Gassmann, Jubilee Wind-Up"
**Pages 264-266: Minna Lederman, "Museum Pieces"
**Pages 264-266: Minna Lederman, "Museum Pieces"
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*Pages 267-269: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 269-270: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 271-274: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [works discussed: Boris Koutzen, ''Concerto for Five Solo Instruments and String Orchestra''; David Diamond, ''Aria and Hymn for Orchestra''; Gardner Read, ''Prelude and Toccata for Orchestra''; Herbert Haufreucht, ''Three Fantastic Marches for Orchestra''; Edmund Haines, ''Three Dances for Orchestra'', etc.]
*Pages 275-278: New Books
**Pages 275-277: Alfred Einstein, "Grove Salutes New Music" [review of the supplement to ''Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians'' edited by H.C. Colles, published by The Macmillan Company in 1940]
**Pages 277-278: Alex North, "Music for Dancing" [review of ''Choreographic Music'' by Verna Arvey, published by E.P. Dutton in 1941]
*Page 279: Contributors to this Issue


== Volume 19: November 1941 – June 1942 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1941 – December 1941) ===
*Page 2: B. Dolbin, Composers of Soviet Russia [sketches of Shostakovich, Prokofiev, and Miaskovsky]
*Pages 3-9: Arthur Lourié, "Notes on the 'New Order'"
*Pages 10-15: Paul Rosenfeld, "A Plea for Improvisation"
*Pages 16-20: x-1941, "The Nazis Draft Music for Total War"
*Pages 21-25: Lazare Saminsky, "Canadian Youth" [discusses Godfrey Ridout, Louis Applebaum, John J. Weinzweig, André Mathieu, Maurice Blackburn, Hector Gratton, Alexander Brott, Barbara Pentland, and Robert Fleming]
*Pages 26-31: Carleton Sprague Smith, "The Composers of Chile" [discusses Enrique Soro, Melo Cruz, Humberto Allende, Domingo Santa Cruz, Alfonso Leng, Alfonso Letelier Llona, and René Amengual among others]
*Pages  32-46: Forecast and Review
**Pages 32-36: Donald Fuller, "Fall Openings, 1941 – I.S.C.M. Date Model"
**Pages 36-39: Paul Bowles, "Letter from Mexico"
**Pages 39-42: Ralph Hawkes, "Publishing Music in a Time of World War"
**Pages 42-44: Henry Cowell, "Summer Festivals in the U.S.A."
**Pages 44-46: Arno Huth, "Swiss News"
*Pages 47-49: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 50-53: At the Opera (remarks by Douglas Moore)
*Pages 53-58: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 58-59: On the Film Front (remarks by John Latouche)
*Pages 59-62: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses David Diamond's ''Elegy in Memory of Ravel'', Bernard Herrmann's Symphony No. 1, Charles Jones's ''Suite for Small Orchestra'', and other works by Roy Harris, Julian Herbage, Adam Carse, Robert Russell Bennett, and Charles Naginski etc.]
*Pages 63-71: Recent Books
**Pages 63-65: Walter Piston, "Music in the Setting of World History" [review of ''Music in Western Civilization'' by Paul Henry Lang, published by Norton in 1941]
**Pages 65-67: Theodore Chanler, "The New Romanticism" [review of ''Our New Music'' by Aaron Copland, published by Whittlesey House in 1941]
**Pages 67-69: Conlon Nancarrow, "Mexican Music – A Developing Nationalism" [review of ''Panorama de la Música Mexicana – Desde la Independencia Hasta la Actualidad'' by Otto Mayer-Serra, published by El Colegio de México in 1941]
**Pages 69-70: Ross Lee Finney, "Piston's Manual of Harmonic Practice" [review of ''Harmony'' by Walter Piston, published by Norton in 1941]
**Pages 70-71: Elliott Carter, "Composers by the Alphabet" [review of ''Great Modern Composers'' edited by Oscar Thompson; published by Dodd, Mead and Company in 1941]
*Page 72: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1942 – February 1942) ===
*Pages 75-82: Aaron Copland, "The Composers of South America"
*Pages 83-87: Henry Cowell, "In Time of Bitter War"
*Pages 88-91: Ernst Krenek, "Busoni—Then and Now"
*Pages 92-95: Paul [Henry] Lang, "Musicology for Music"
*Page 96: B. Dolbin sketch of William Schuman [image]
*Pages 97-99: Leonard Bernstein, "Young American - William Schuman"
*Pages 100-101: Benjamin Britten, "Au Revoir to the U.S.A."
*Pages 102-107: Bernhard Heiden, "Hindemith's 'System' — A New Approach"
*Page 108: Marian Greenwood, drawing of David Diamond [image]
*Pages 109-123: Forecast and Review
**Pages 109-115: Donald Fuller, "Americans to the Fore – New York, 1941-42" [brief reviews of William Schuman's ''Third Symphony'', Virgil Thomson's ''Second Symphony'', Carlos Chavez's ''Piano Concerto'', Shostakovich's ''Cello Sonata'' etc.]
**Pages 115-117: Charles Ives, "Children's Day at the Camp Meeting" [description of his own Fourth Violin Sonata]
**Pages 117-120: Ernest Chapman, "Britain Calls Music to the Colors" [discusses British musical activity in support of the war effort and also reviews new works such as William Walton's ''Violin Concerto'' and Alan Bush's ''Meditation on a German Song of 1848'']
**Pages 120-122: Ross Lee Finney, "Artists Find a Way—Minneapolis M.T.N.A."
**Pages 122-123: David Van Vactor, "New Works in Chicago" [Arthur Benjamin's ''Overtire to an Italian Comedy,'' Rachmaninoff's ''Symphonic Dances'', Leo Sowerby's ''String Quartet in G Minor'', etc.]
*Pages 124-126: Records and Scores (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 126-129: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 129-132: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 132-134: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [discusses Hanns Eisler's score for ''Forgotten Village'' etc.]
*Pages 134-138: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Dai-Keong Lee's ''Introduction and Allegro'', Quincy Porter's music for ''Anthony and Cleopatra'', Henry Hadley's ''In Bohemia'' overture, Russell Bennett's ''Nocturne and Appassionata for Piano and Orchestra'', Juan José Castro's ''Symphony of the Fields'', Hindemith's ''Sonata for English Horn and Piano'' etc.]
*Pages 139-143: Recent Books
**Pages 139-140: Marc Blitzstein, "Singing Country" [review of ''Our Singing Country'', Volume II of ''American Ballads and Folk Songs''; collected and compiled by John A. Lomax and Alan Lomax; published by The Macmillan Company]
**Pages 140-142: Frederick Jacobi, "The Approach to 'Greatness'" [review of ''Greatness in Music'' by Alfred Einstein, published by Oxford University Press in 1941]
**Pages 142-143: Robert Ward, "Quick-Sketch of Spain" [review of ''The Music of Spain'' by Gilbert Chase, published by Norton]
*Page 144: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1942 – April 1942) ===
*Pages 147-152: Lehman Engel, "Songs of the American Wars"
*Pages 153-155: Bela Bartok, "Race Purity in Music"
*Pages 156-162: Roger Sessions, "No More Business-As-Usual" [critique of American musical life during wartime]
*Pages 163-166: Colin McPhee, "The Green Earth Scorched" [on Bali and colonialism]
*Pages 167-168: Robert Ward, "In the Army Now" [on the status of the musician in the army]
*Pages 169-172: Richard Franko Goldman, "Bands in War-Time"
*Pages 173-189: Forecast and Review
**Pages 173-178: Donald Fuller, "Winter to Spring, New York, 1942" [remarks on Robert Russell Bennett's ''Eight Etudes for Orchestra'', Jaromir Weinberger's ''Lincoln Symphony'', Martinu's ''Concerto Grosso for Chamber Orchestra'', Poulenc's ''Two Piano Concerto'', Douglas Moore's ''A Symphony of Autumn'' etc.]
**Pages 178-181: Alfred Frankenstein, "Stravinsky in Beverley Hills"
**Pages 181-185: Arno Huth, "Collaboration in France–Swiss News"
**Pages 185-189: Arthur Cohn, "Chavez and the Chicago Drouth," and "Philadelphia Story"
*Pages 190-192: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 192-194: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [treats war films and scores by Antheil for ''Once in a Blue Moon'' and by Korngold for ''King's Row'' etc.]
*Pages 194-197: In the Theatre (remarks by Samuel L.M. Barlow) [discusses ''Porgy and Bess'' by George Gershwin, and ''The Island God'' by Gian-Carlo Menotti etc.]
*Pages 197-201: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [Martha Graham's ''Punch and the Judy'' etc.]
*Pages 201-205: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Wayne Barlow's ''The Winter Passed'', Shostakovich's ''Piano Quintet'', Paul Creston's ''Pastorale and Tarantella for Orchestra'' etc.]
*Pages 206-211: Recent Books
**Pages 206-208: Minna Lederman, "American Way" [review of ''Who, What and Why is Radio?'' by Robert Landry, published by the George W. Stewart Company]
**Pages 208-210: Roy Welch, "Further Initiation Rites" [review of ''From Madrigal to Modern Music'' by Douglas Moore, published by Norton in 1942]
**Pages 210-211: Leonard Feather, "Nostalgic Guide to Jazz" [review of ''Jazz Record Book'' by Charles Edward Smith et al., published by Smith and Durell]
*Page 212: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1942 – June 1942) ===
*Pages 215-221: Paul Rosenfeld, "One of the Parents" [on Horatio Parker]
*Pages 222-227: Pedro Sanjuan, "Cuba's Popular Music"
*Pages 228-229: Theodore Chanler, "Arctic Arcadian" [critique of Jean Sibelius]
*Pages 233-235: Minna Lederman, "A Letter from Paris" [''La Revue Musicale'' etc.]
*Page 236: John Canaday, drawing of Randall Thompson [image]
*Pages 237-242: Quincy Porter, "American Composers, XVIII: Randall Thompson"
*Pages 243-245: John Cage, "For More New Sounds" [a call for sounds beyond conventional instruments, and the means to notate/represent them]
*Pages 246-248, 250: John Kirkpatrick, "Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata"
*Page 249: Jo Mielziner, "Pilar of Fire" – design for Anthony Tudor's ballet set to Arnold Schönberg's ''Verklärte Nacht'' (a spring production of the Ballet Theatre) [image]
*Pages 251-253: Edwin Hughes, "Blackout for the Music Industries"
*Pages 254-270: Forecast and Review
**Pages 254-260: Donald Fuller, "New York, Spring, '42; Music of the Americas" [remarks on William Schuman's Fourth Symphony, Samuel Barber's ''Second Essay for Orchestra'', Prokofiev's ''Scythian Suite'', etc.]
**Pages 260-263: John Cage, "South Winds in Chicago" [remarks on Harl McDonald's ''Overture (1941)'' and especially Hindemith's ''Concerto for Violincello and Orchestra'']
**Pages 263-265: Henry Cowell, "Improving Pan-American Music Relations"
**Page 266: Quincy Porter, "''Solomon and Balkis'' in Cambridge" [Randall Thompson's opera]
**Pages 267-270: Arthur Cohn, "Rogers, Diamond and Others at Rochester"
*Pages 271-272: Scores and Records (Remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 272-275: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [reviews of Fokine-Prokofiev-Dobujinski, ''Russian Solider''; and Tudor-Schönberg-Mielziner, ''Pillar of Fire'' etc.]
*Pages 275-278: On the Film Front (remarks by Léon Kochnitzky) [remarks on Chaplin's ''Gold Rush'' and Marc Blitzstein's score for ''Native Land'' etc.]
*Pages 279-282: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Quincy Porter's ''Music for Strings'', Richard Arnell's ''Sonata for Chamber Orchestra'', Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Stravinsky's Violin Concerto, Rudolph Forst's ''Concerto for Cello and Orchestra'' etc.]
*Page 283: Contents of Recent Back Issues
*Page 284: Contributors to this Issue
*Pages 285-289: Index to Back Issues
== Volume 20: November 1942 – June 1943 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1942 – December 1942) ===
*Pages 3-7: Roger Sessions, "Artists and this War: A Letter to an Imaginary Colleague"
*Pages 8-12: Richard Franko Goldman, "Music for the Army"
*Pages 13-16: Germaine Tailleferre, "From the South of France"
*Pages 17-22:Theodore Chanler, "Stravinsky's Apologia"
*Pages 23-26: Lazare Saminsky, "Composers of the Pacific"
*Pages 27-32: Léon Kochnitzky, "Musical Portraits"
*Pages 33-36: Back Issues of Modern Music
*Pages 37-50: Forecast and Review
**Pages 37-40: Donald Fuller, "New York '42: Soviet Tribute: Stadium: Ballet"
**Pages 40-43: Arno Huth, "News from Paris and Elsewhere in Europe"
**Pages 43-46: Charles Cushing, "The I.S.C.M. in California" [premiere of Ellis Kohs' ''Concerto for Orchestra'' etc.]
**Pages 46-48: Carl Buchman, "Composers Dedicate Works to the Band" [Pedro Sanjuan's ''Canto Yorubá'', Morton Gould's ''Jericho'', William Schuman's ''News-Reel'', Percy Grainger's ''Lads of Wamphray'' etc.]
**Pages 49-50: James Sykes, "Native Notes in Colorado"
*Pages 51-52: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 53-57: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [includes remarks on Copland ballets]
*Pages 57-61: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles) [discusses some war films, Miklos Rosza's music for ''Jacare'' etc.]
*Pages 62-63: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [treats Shostakovich's newly broadcast Seventh Symphony, Copland's ''Lincoln Portrait'' and ''Music for Radio'' etc.]
*Pages 64-67: Recent Books
**Pages 64-66: Arthur Berger, "On Modern Music, But for Whom?" [review of ''This Modern Music'' by John Tasker Howard, published by Crowell]
**Pages 66-67: Minna Lederman, "Round the World with Radio" [review of ''Radio Today'' by Arno Huth, published by the Geneva Research Center]
*Page 68: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1943 – February 1943) ===
*Pages 71-77: Eugene Goossens, "The Public—Has It Changed?"
*Pages 78-82: Aaron Copland, "From the '20s to the '40s and Beyond"
*Pages 83-89: Paul Rosenfeld, "When New York Became Central"
*Pages 90-94: Paul Nettl, "The West Faces East"
*Pages 95-101: Howard Hanson, "Twenty Years; Growth in America"
*Pages 102-111: Ernst Krenek, "Opera Between the Wars"
*Pages 112-125: Forecast and Review
**Pages 112-115: Donald Fuller, "New York Mid-Season, 1942–'43" [premiere of Martinu's First Symphony in Boston, Bernard Herrman's First Symphony, remarks on frequent Shostakovich symphony performances, new Two-Piano Sonata by Hindemith, etc.]
**Pages 115-117: Israel Citkowitz, "Birthday Pieces" [treats Piston's Flute/Strings Quintet, Milhaud's Eleventh String Quartet, Arthur Shepherd's ''Praeludium Salutorium,'' etc.]
**Pages 117-120: Marc Blitzstein, "London: Fourth Winter of the Blackout" [describes musical/cultural life here at the height of the war]
**Pages 121-124: Leopoldo Hurtado, "Inter-American Reviews"
**Pages 124-125: Leah Brenner, "Below the Rio Grande"
*Pages 126-129: Scores and Records, "1923-1943" [remarks by Colin McPhee on music publishing and recording during this span, with some discussion of particular works]
*Pages 129-132: Films and Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
*Pages 132-137: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 137-139: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Bernard van Dieren's ''Sonnet Amoretti'', Charles Martin Loeffler's ''Pagan Poem'', Harold Triggs' ''The Bright Land'', etc.]
*Pages 140-142: Recent Books
**Pages 140-142: Paul Bowles, "Once Again, Le Jazz Hot" [review of ''The Real Jazz'' by Hugues Panassié, published by Smith and Durrell]
*Page 143: Contributors to this Issue
*Page 144: "Leading Figures Hail the League" [short tributes by Serge Koussevitszky, Leopold Stokowsi, Artur Rodzinski, Fritz Reiner, Darius Milhaud, Olin Downes, Charles Seeger, Howard Hanson, Oscar Thompson, and Eugene Goossens]
=== Number 3 (March 1943 – April 1943) ===
*Pages 147-151: Israel Citkowitz, "Abstract Method and the Voice"
*Pages 152-156: John Peatman, "'Non-Militant, Sentimental...'"
*Pages 157-160: Willard Rhodes, "On the Warpath, 1942"
*Pages 161-169: Robert Horan, "American Composers, XIX: Samuel Barber"
*Pages 170-174: Robert Ward, "Letter from the Army"
*Pages 175-203: Forecast and Review
**Pages 175-182: Arthur Berger, "Once Again, the One-Man Show, 1943"
**Pages 182-185: Donald Fuller, "More on the New York Season"
**Pages 185-187: S. Schlifstein, "News from Russia (By Cable to Modern Music from Moscow): On 'War and Peace'" [Prokofiev]
**Pages 187-189: Igor Boelza, "Shebalin's Overture, Glière's Concerto"
**Pages 189-191: Howard Hess, "Fanfares by Americans"
**Pages 191-193: Ingolf Dahl, "'Tough Concerts' in Los Angeles"
**Pages 193-195: Alfred Frankenstein, "For San Francisco, Orchestral Moderns"
**Pages 195-197: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Bartok's Latest, 'American Repertory'"
**Pages 197-199: Carlos Raygada, "Inter-American Reviews: The Curse of the Virtuoso Routine" [contemporary music in Lima]
**Pages 199-202: R.U.A., "Politics and International Influence" [contemporary music in Montevideo]
**Pages 202-203: Myron Schaeffer, "At the World's Crossroads" [musical life in Panama]
*Pages 204-205: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [David Diamond's ''Quintet in B Minor'', Virgil Thomson's ''Seven Choruses from the Medea of Euripedes'', etc.]
*Pages 205-207: Films and Theatre (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Louis Gruenberg's music for ''Commandos Strike At Dawn'', etc.]
*Pages 207-209: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 209-213: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [comments on Roy Harris's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's ''Symphony in C'', etc.]
*Pages 214-215: Recent Books
**Pages 214-215: Gilbert Chase, "Americanismo Musical" [review of ''Boletín Latino American de Música'' Vol. 5, edited by Francesco Curt Lange]
*Page 216: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1943 – June 1943) ===
*Page 218: Frank Waldo Murray, Portrait of Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert [image]
*Pages 219-225: Elliott Carter, "American Figure, With Landscape" [discusses Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert]
*Pages 226-228: Theodore Chanler, "Words and Musical Form"
*Pages 229-234: Edwin Denby, "About Words for Singing"
*Pages 235-242: Colin McPhee, "Eight to the Bar" [on rhythm in jazz and world music]
*Pages 243-247: Henry and Sidney Robertson Cowell, "Our Country Music"
*Pages 248-253: Otto Luening, "American Composers, XX: Douglas Moore"
*Pages 254-276: Forecast and Review
**Pages 254-257: Arthur Berger, "Spring Season, 1943"
**Pages 257-260: Donald Fuller, "Society Notes in New York"
**Pages 260-262: Winthrop P. Tryon, "First in Boston" [a group of premieres]
**Pages 262-264: George Frederick McKay, "War Boom in the Northwest"
**Pages 264-266: Paul Rosenfeld, "Robert Palmer and Charles Mills"
**Pages 267-268: Stewart B. Sabin, "Thirteen at Rochester" [13th annual Rochester School Festival of Music; treats premiere of Sowerby's Violin Concerto, etc.]
**Pages 268-270: G. Michailov, "As They See Us in Russia"
**Pages 270-273: Samuel L.M. Barlow, "Inter-American Reviews: Chilean Travels"
**Pages 273-276: Luis Sandi, "Struggle in Mexico" [difficulties with music education there]
*Pages 277-278: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Copland's ''A Lincoln Portrait'', Paul Hindemith's ''Six Chansons'', Henry Cowell's ''How Ols is Song'', etc.]
*Pages 279-282: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby)
*Pages 282-284: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Roy Webb's score for ''The Human Comedy'', etc.]
*Pages 284-286: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Charles Ives's Fourth Symphony, Prokofiev's cantata ''Alexander Nevsky'', William Schuman's ''A Free Song'', Vaughan Williams's Fourth Symphony, Hindemith's Symphony in E-Flat, Vladimir Dukelsky's Violin Concerto, etc.]
*Pages 286-287: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [new section on jazz, blues, and popular tunes for this periodical; mentions Brad Gowan's band, Lil Green, Duke Ellington, etc.]
*Pages 288-291: Recent Books
**Pages 288-290: Minna Lederman, "Pamphlets and Pamphleteers" [short reviews of various booklets on Russian music]
**Pages 290-291: Israel Citkowitz, "Interpretive Style" [review of ''History of Music in Performance'' by Frederick Dorian, published by Norton in 1942]
*Page 292: Contributors to this Issue
== Volume 21: November 1943 – June 1944 ==
=== Number 1 (November 1943 – December 1943) ===
*Pages 3-5: Theodore Chanler, "Poetry, Music and Time"
*Pages 6-9: Alfred Frankenstein, "How to Make Friends by Radio"
*Pages 10-15: Sidney Robertson Cowell, "White Spirituals"
*Pages 16-17: Vissarion Shebalin, "Dean of Soviet Composers" [on Nikolai Miaskovsky]
*Pages 16-22: Keith Thompson, "Opera in America Today"
*Pages 23-26: Douglas Moore, "Young Composers After the War"
*Pages 27-30: Kurt List, "Anton von Webern"
*Pages 31-47: Forecast and Review
**Pages 31-34: Colin McPhee, "The Season Opens–1943" [discusses Bartok's Violin Concerto, Bernard Rogers' ''Invasion'', Douglas Moore's ''Prayer for the Nation'', etc.]
**Pages 34-36: Lou Harrison, "Summer and Early Fall, New York" [discusses Henry Cowell's ''Shoonthree'', Wallingford Riegger's ''Prelude and Fugue'', Stanley Bate's Piano Sonatina, etc.]
**Pages 37-39: Lawrence Morton, "American Conductor and Works for L.A."
**Pages 39-41: Arno Huth, "Where Nations Still Meet" [cultural activity in Switzerland]
**Pages 41-42: Eleanor Wakefield, "Red Star Over the Southwest" [Soviet music concert in Houston]
**Pages 42-44: Robert Evett, "Lively Conference in Colorado" [annual Fine Arts Conference at Colorado Springs]
**Pages 44-45: George Henry Lovett Smith, "Martinu's Second Symphony"
**Pages 45-47: Norman Nairn, "Informal Symposium at Rochester" [David Diamond's Second Symphony, etc.]
**Page 47: "Joshua at Jericho—Soviet Style" [Leon Himmelfarb's jazz band music heard over the German battlefield]
*Pages 48-50: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [discusses Bartok piano works, Copland's ''Danzon Cubano'', Douglas Moore's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'', etc.]
*Pages 50-53: Theatre and Films (remarks by Elliott Carter) [discusses Kurt Weill's music for ''One Touch of Venus'', Copland's music for ''North Star'', Alexandre Tansman's score for Duvivier's ''Flesh and Fantasy'', etc.]
*Pages 53-57: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 57-60: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [negative comments on Edmund Rubbra's Third Symphony, discussion of Stravinsky's ''Ode for Orchestra'' and Leroy Robertson's ''Piano Quintet'', etc.]
*Pages 60-61: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Pages 62-63: Recent Books
**Pages 62-63: Arthur Berger, "Why Not Write a Book?" [review of ''The Music Lover's Handbook'' by Elie Siegmeister, published by William Morrow and Company]
*Page 64: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 2 (January 1944 – February 1944) ===
*Page 66: M. Larionov, Sketch of Prokofiev, Diaghilev, and Larionov "At a Rehearsal of the Ballet Russe in Paris during the 'twenties" [image]
*Pages 67-69: Serge Prokofiev, "My Cinderella"
*Pages 70-75: Marcelle de Manziarly, "On Rhythm, Complex and Simple"
*Pages 76-81: Jacques de Menasce, "Berg and Bartok"
*Pages 82-84: William Strickland, "The Army Way Today"
*Pages 85-88: "What Makes a Good War Song? Report from V.O.K.S. on the Moscow Meeting of Composers"
*Pages 89-95: Darius Milhaud, "Through My California Window"
*Pages 96-111: Forecast and Review
**Pages 96-97: Colin McPhee, "Winter Stars and Lesser Lights"
**Pages 98-100: Lou Harrison, "Composers, Singers and Chamber Music" [comments on Britten's ''Seven Sonnets'', Douglas Moore's ''Three Divine Sonnets'', songs by John Edmunds, Miklos Rosza's ''Variations'', Anis Fuleihan's ''Piano Sonata Number Two'', etc.]
**Pages 100-102: Lawrence Morton, "American Symphonists in Los Angeles" [William Schuman's Third, Paul Creston's First, Robert Russell Bennett's ''Four Freedoms'', etc.]
**Pages 102-104: Moses Smith, "Boston Goes All Out on Premieres" [Berezovsky's Fourth Symphony, William Schuman's ''Symphony for Strings'', Howard Hanson's Fourth Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 104-106: Vincent Persichetti, "Philadelphia Takes a Flier" [world premieres of Martinu's ''Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra'', and Hindemith's ''Cupid and Psyche'', etc.]
**Pages 107-108: Cecil Smith, "Breaking Trails in Chicago"
**Pages 108-110: Alfred Frankenstein, "Milhaud's 'Midian' in Orchestral Debut"
**Pages 110-111: Frederick Dorian, "Music Boom in War-Time Pittsburgh"
*Pages 112-113: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [Hindemith's ''Ludus Tonalis'', Piston's ''Passacaglia'' for piano, etc.]
*Pages 113-116: Dancing on Broadway (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 116-118: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
*Pages 118-119: In the Theatre (remarks by Paul Bowles)
*Pages 120-121: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [Schoenberg orchestration of Bach's Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, Villa-Lobos's ''Choros Number 1'', etc.]
*Pages 121-123: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Pages 124-127: Recent Books
**Pages 124-125: Israel Citkowitz, "And Now, Basic Music" [reviews of ''Models for Beginners in Composition'' by Arnold Schoenberg, published by Schirmer; and ''Traditional Harmony'' by Paul Hindemith, published by Associated Music Publishers]
**Pages 126-127: Donald Fuller, "Biography, Premature or Overdone" [reviews of ''Dmitri Shostakovich, the Life and Background of a Soviet Composer'' by Victor Ilyich Seroff with Nadejda Galli-Shohat, published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1943; and ''Charles T. Griffes, the Life of an American Composer'' by Edward M. Maisel, published by A. Knopf in 1943]
*Page 128: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 3 (March 1944 – April 1944) ===
*Page 130: Arnold Schönberg, Self-Portrait (March 1944) [image]
*Pages 131-145: "Homage to Schönberg" [Schoenberg]
**Pages 131-134: Ernst Krenek, "The Idiom and the Technic"
**Pages 135-138: Lou Harrison, "The Late Works"
**Pages 139-145: Kurt List: "Ode to Napoleon"
*Pages 146-149: S.L.M. Barlow, "The Artist in South America"
*Pages 150-154: André Breton (translated by Louise Varèse), "Silence is Golden"
*Pages 155-158: Paul Nettl, "Music as a Weapon of War"
*Pages 159-182: Forecast and Review
**Pages 159-164: Lou Harrison, "Mid-Winter in New York, 1944" [discusses Hindemith performances, Dukelsky's Violin Concero, Miaskovsky's Second Sinfonietta, Stanlet Bate's Second String Quartet, etc.]
**Pages 164-169: Donald Fuller, "Style in Recent Chamber Music" [discusses chamber works by Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Vladimir Dukelsky, Benjamin Britten, etc.]
**Pages 169-171: Lawrence Morton, "The Harris Third and Other Works in L.A." [Menotti's ''The Old Maid and the Thief'', Tchemberdji's ''Dance Suite'', Harold Shapero's Violin Sonata, etc.]
**Pages 171-173: Moses Smith, "Stravinsky Meets the Boston Censor"
**Pages 173-175: Alfred Frankenstein, "Reviving Henry F. Gilbert"
**Pages 175-177: Vincent Persichetti, "Revueltas Reaches Philadelphia"
**Pages 177-179: George H. Lovett Smith, "Americana, New and Old"
**Pages 179-180: Ray Brown, "Piston's New Symphony in Washington" [Second Symphony]
**Pages 180-182: Roberto Garcia Morillo, "Argentine Season"
*Pages 183-184: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee) [mentions increasing American interest in Mahler, discusses Virgil Thomson's Third Piano Sonata, etc.]
*Pages 184-186: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton) [discusses Bernard Herrmann's score to ''Jane Eyre'', etc.]
*Pages 186-188: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 188-191: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [discusses Stravinsky's Symphony in C, Schoenberg's Piano Concerto, Antheil's Fourth Symphony, Hanson's Fourth Symphony, Persichetti's Piano Trio, Diamond's Concerto for Two Solo Pianos, etc.]
*Pages 191-193: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure") [comments on the singing of Mildred Bailey, etc.]
*Pages 194-195: Recent Books
**Pages 194-195: Arthur Berger, "The Rediscovery of Consonance" [review of ''The Rise of Music in the Ancient World, East and West'' by Curt Sachs, published by Norton]
**Page 195: Colin McPhee, "One More for the Record" [review of ''Jazz, from the Congo to the Metropolitan'' by Robert Goffin, published by Doubleday Doran]
*Page 196: Contributors to this Issue
=== Number 4 (May 1944 – June 1944) ===
*Pages 199-202: Elliott Carter, "Ives Today: His Vision and Challenge"
*Pages 203-207: Arthur Lourié, "The Approach to the Masses"
*Pages 208-211: Theodore Chanler, "Rhythm and Habit"
*Pages 212-216: W.H. Mellers, "New Trends in Britain: A Note on Rubbra and Tippett"
*Pages 217-220: Aaron Copland, "On the Notation of Rhythm"
*Pages 221-224: E. Power Biggs, "Organ Revival: Music Old and New"
*Pages 225-232: Donald Fuller, "American Composers, XXI: Bernard Wagenaar"
*Pages 233-258: Forecast and Review
**Pages 233-237: Lou Harrison, "Season's End, May 1944" [includes a negative review of Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, as well as brief reviews of Barber's Second and William Schuman's Fifth Symphonies; also includes remarks on music by Harry Partch and John Cage, etc.]
**Pages 237-240: Donald Fuller, "Bernstein, Ballet, and Chamber Music"
**Pages 240-243: Gail Kubik, "London Letter" [contains significant remarks on Michael Tippett's music, etc.]
**Pages 243-246: Cecil Smith, "Composers to Chicago" [recounts performances of music by Copland, Gassmann, Thomson, Hindemith, Prokofiev, etc.]
**Pages 246-248: Bernard Rogers, "The New Works at Rochester" [treats William Bergsma's Second Symphony, Burrill Phillips's ''Declaratives'', Douglas Moore's ''In Memorium'', Gardner Read's ''Night Flight'', Elliott Carter's First Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 248-251: Vincent Persichetti, "Some Firsts in Philadelphia" [remarks on Eugene Zador's ''Biblical Triptych'', etc.]
**Pages 251-253: Moses Smith, "Americans and Shostakovich in Boston" [remarks on Shostakovich Eighth, Roy Harris's music, Barber's Second Symphony, Piston's Second Symphony, etc.]
**Pages 253-255: Frederick Dorian, "The New and Contemporary in Pittsburgh"
**Pages 255-257: Lawrence Morton, "Diminuendo in the West" [remarks on William Schuman's ''A Free Song'', etc.]
**Pages 257-258: Ray C.B. Brown, "War Brings More Music to the Capital"
*Pages 259-260: Scores and Records (remarks by Colin McPhee)
*Pages 261-264: With the Dancers (remarks by S.L.M. Barlow)
*Pages 264-266: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by Lawrence Morton)
*Pages 266-267: In the Theatre (Paul Bowles)
*Pages 268-270: Over the Air (remarks by Charles Mills) [more remarks on Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony, remarks on Harris's Sixth Symphony, etc.]
*Pages 270-271: The Torrid Zone (remarks by "Mercure")
*Page 272: Contributors to this Issue
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