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=== Number 3 (March, 1939 – April, 1939) === | === Number 3 (March, 1939 – April, 1939) === | ||
*Page 142: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch for Douglas Moore's and Stephen Vincent Benet's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'' [image] | *Page 142: Robert Edmond Jones, Preliminary Sketch for Douglas Moore's and Stephen Vincent Benet's ''The Devil and Daniel Webster'' [image] | ||
*Pages 143-149: Charles Louis Seeger, "Grass Roots for American Composers" | *Pages 143-149: Charles Louis Seeger, "Grass Roots for American Composers" | ||
*Pages 150-155: Alfred Einstein, "Universality and Music Today" | *Pages 150-155: Alfred Einstein, "Universality and Music Today" | ||
*Pages 156-159: Stefan Wolpe, "Music, Old and New, in Palestine" | *Pages 156-159: Stefan Wolpe, "Music, Old and New, in Palestine" | ||
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*Page 202: Decors for ''Railroads on Parade'', set to music by Kurt Weill [images] | *Page 202: Decors for ''Railroads on Parade'', set to music by Kurt Weill [images] | ||
*Pages 203-213: Fugitivus [pseudonym of a German critic], "Inside Germany" [a description of musical life inside Nazi Germany] | *Pages 203-213: Fugitivus [pseudonym of a German critic], "Inside Germany" [a description of musical life inside Nazi Germany] | ||
*Pages 214-219: Paul Rosenfeld, "Variation on the Grass Roots Theme" [a response to Charles Louis Seeger's piece in the previous issue] | |||
*Pages 220-224: Humphrey Searle, "Growing Pains in England" | |||
*Pages 225-228: Minna Lederman, "Fan Mail for Mr. [Grover] Whalen" | |||
*Pages 229-237: Virgil Thomson, "More and More from Paris" | |||
*Pages 238-263: Forecast and Review | |||
**Pages 238-243: Elliott Carter, "O Fair World of Music!" [argues that there is much worth hearing outside of the standard repertoire, and discusses recent performance examples] | |||
**Pages 243-249: Emilia Elsner, "Troubled Warsaw is Host to the Nations" | |||
**Pages 249-254: E.C., "Season of Hindemith and Americans" [Hindemith performances, Roy Harris's Third Symphony, etc.] | |||
***Page 254: Colin McPhee, "Further Seasonal Note" [on a choir festival directed by Lazare Saminsky at Temple Emanuel] | |||
**Pages 254-256: John N. Burk, "Bloch Revisits Boston" | |||
**Pages 256-259: Cecil Michener Smith, "Chicago Moves Forward" [on the 1938-1939 season and its "most varied experience in contemporary music of past years"] | |||
***Page 259: René Devries, "Jacobi's Concerto" [Frederick Jacobi's Violin Concerto] | |||
**Pages 259-261: Henry Pleasants, "New Music for Philadelphia" [review of Nicolai Berezowsky's ''Toccata, Variations and Finale'' etc.] | |||
**Pages 261-263: Moses Smith, "Bowdoin College Series" [remarks on performances of Copland's ''Piano Variations'', Robert McBride's ''Hot-Shot Divertimento'', and the premiere of Walter Piston's ''Sonata for Violin and Piano''] | |||
*Pages 264-267: Scores and Records (reviews by Colin McPhee) | |||
*Pages 268-271: With the Dancers (remarks by Edwin Denby) [particularly positive remarks on the Broadway musical ''Mexicana''] | |||
*Pages 271-275: Over the Air (remarks by David Diamond) [includes substantial material on Gian-Carlo Menotti's ''The Old Maid and the Thief''] | |||
*Pages 276-278: In the Theatre (remarks by John Gutman) | |||
*Pages 278-280: On the Hollywood Front (remarks by George Antheil) [includes material on Prokofiev's music for ''Alexander Nevsky'', Georges Auric's music for ''The Love of Paris'', and mention of Stokowski beginning work on what would become Disney's ''Fantasia''] | |||
*Pages 281-287: Recent Books | |||
**Pages 281-285: Paul Bowles, "Anatomy of Jazz" [review of ''Jazz, Hot and Hybrid'' by Winthrop Sargeant, published by Arrow Editions; and ''American Jazz Music'' by Wilder Hobson, published by Norton] | |||
**Pages 285-287: Kurt List, "The Social Approach" [review of ''Music and Society'' by Elie Siegmeister, published by the Critic's Group Press] | |||
*Page 288: Contributors to this Issue | |||
[[Category:Music Periodicals]] | [[Category:Music Periodicals]] | ||
[[Category:Classical Music Periodicals]] | [[Category:Classical Music Periodicals]] | ||