Nonfiction
Spring 1941
Music Chronicle: The Alceste
Touching, through its tragic pathos attained by chaste means, pure and shapely as an antique statue, Alceste by Gluck received its first New York performance the evening of January 24th. […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1944
The Last of Young Vienna
Aus Dem Fragment “Paula”: Herbstmorgen in Oesterreich by Richard Beer-Hofmann. New York: Johannes Press. $3.00. Like all his work this recent modest memoir of his wife by the Austrian poet, […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1942
Schooled and Unschooled Art
The Emergence of an American Art by Jerome Mellquist. Scribners. $3.75 They Taught Themselves by Sidney Janis. Dial Press. $3.50 Jerome Mellquist’s emergence, in a maiden book on professional […]
Nonfiction
Summer 1940
Music Chronicle: Panorama of the Season in New York
The symbolic landscape before my mind’s eye is in motion. It resembles what might have been the earth’s crust during the Algonkian Epoch. The ruddy mountains, interspersed with hillocks and […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1940
Music Chronicle: The Musicological Congress
THE MUSICOLOGICAL CONGRESS To the query, What is a “musicologist”?, composers and performers of music have tended to reply: “Someone or everyone whose life suddenly and unaccountably has become ‘modal.’ […]
Nonfiction
Spring 1939
The Advance of American Music
[This essay is a sequel to “The Advent of American Music” by Mr. Rosenfeld in the Winter number.] The promise of music of high quality in the style of American […]
Nonfiction
Winter 1939
The Advent of American Music
A fresh unprecedented representative of American culture appeared some thirty-odd years ago. It was music of high quality by an American. Its manipulation of the medium was intrinsically interesting and […]