Book Reviews
Spring 1958
Harsh Notes among Music Critics
From The World Of Music by Ernest Newman. Essays from the London Sunday Times. Selected by Felix Aprahamian. Coward-McCann. $5.00. Olin Downes On Music edited by Irene Downes. Simon and […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1957
Concerning Opera
Opera As Drama. By Joseph Kerman. Knopf. $4.50. The critic’s operation as I understand it and value it is the one described by E. M. Forster at the Harvard Symposium […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1956
Musical Performance
There is a record of a rehearsal at the 1950 Prades Festival in which Casals stops to explain to the orchestra: “Every note is variety—this is what gives life—otherwise it’s […]
Nonfiction
Autumn 1955
Berlioz
Judged by the criteria we apply to Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert–namely use of the medium, and what is expressed through this use–Berlioz is one of the greatest musical artists. This estimate […]
Book Reviews
Winter 1939
Genius Limited and Yearning
GEORGE GERSHWIN. Edited by Merle Armitage. Longmans Green. $5.00 In this book are a number of pieces about Gershwin, a number of photographs of him, the caricatures by Covarrubias and […]