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== 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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