nicolas slonimsky

197 Pages·2005·1.52 MB·English

by  Electra Slonimsky Yourke

NICOLAS SLONIMSKY
Writings on Music
VOLUME ONE
Nicolas Slonimsky, Boston, 1927
NICOLAS SLONIMSKY
Writings on Music
VOLUME ONE
Early Articles for the Boston Evening Transcript
Edited by Electra Slonimsky Yourke

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Slonimsky, Nicolas, 1894–1995 [Selections. 2003] Nicolas Slonimsky: writings on music. p. cm.
Edited by Electra Slonimsky Yourke. Includes bibligraphical references (p.) and index. ISBN 0-
415-96865-8 (v. 1: alk. paper) 1. Music—History and criticism. I. Yourke, Electra. II. Title.
ML60.S646 2003 780–dc21 2003011569
ISBN 0-203-97028-4 Master e-book ISBN
ISBN 0-415-96865-8 (Print Edition)
published in The Boston Herald, May 5, 1926
CONTENTS

Preface x
A Note from the Editor xiii

Tansman’s Traits: Prodigious Youth, Prolific Composer, New Guest at the 1

Symphony Concerts 12/28/27
Stravinskiana 2/25/28 4
The Avierinos’ Concert 3/22/28 7
By Way of Introduction [Honegger] 3/30/28 10
A Welcoming Hail [Casella] 4/28/28 13
Young Modernists Hoe Their Own Row [Copland & Sessions] 5/11/28 15
By His Faith, By His Work, To The End [Gilbert] 5/26/28 18
The Hand That Evokes Music From the Ether [Theremin] 10/2/28 22
From the Ether A “New” Music In New Manner [Theremin] 10/8/28 25
New Stirrings in Ether-Wave Music [Theremin] 10/19/28 29
In Arthur Honegger the Symphony Concerts Receive a Notable Guest 1/10/29 31
The Patient, The Doctors, The Verdicts [American music] 1/29/29 35
Composer, Conductor, Cosmopolite [Goossens] 2/23/29 39
By Innovation Shall Hearers Recognize Him [Cowell] 3/9/29 43
Bouncing Into Fortune’s Lap And Out Again [Dukelsky] 3/14/29 46
Our Jazzing, Their Jazzing, Reasons Why 4/20/29 49
Modernist Sprung From the Ancients [Casella] 5/28/29 56
The Pit They Have Hollowed for Toscanini 11/2/29 59
Unalloyed, Undecorated, Undiminished [Musorgsky] 11/30/29 64
This America Deep in His Fervent Soul [Bloch] 12/27/29 67
A Single Line Is Glazunov’s Musical Life 1/15/30 71
Side-Glances at Prokofiev Now Returned 1/30/30 74
In Epitome The Career Of Roussel 10/23/30 77
Who Is Mossolov? And What Is He? 12/1/30 81
The Psalms and Pieties of Igor Stravinsky 12/13/30 83
The Strange Case of Arthur Vincent Lourié 1/3/31 86
Fortunate Years for Unfortunate Composer [Musorgsky] 4/11/31 89
With the New Concerto for Mirror [Stravinsky] 12/26/31 93
Florent Schmitt 11/26/32 98
Enter Lastly The Youngest Of the Angels [Markevitch] 4/20/33 101
Scientific Mind Turned on Music [Saminsky] 5/20/33 105
Welcome for The Incoming Modern Master [Schoenberg] 10/28/33 107
From the West Composer New To Bostonians [Harris] 1/24/34 112
Composer Who Has Clung To His Own Way [Ives] 2/3/34 116
Ranging Round the World of Music 11/3/34 120
Ranging Round the Music-World 11/17/34 124
Ranging Round the World of Music 1/5/35 128
Ranging Round the World of Music 2/9/35 132
Marginal Notes on The Russian Film 2/23/35 136
Memorandum About Unfamiliar Music 3/20/35 139
Ranging Round the World of Music 4/6/35 141
Music of Ives on New England Scene 5/4/35 145
Ranging Round the World of Music 6/8/35 147
Shostakovich, The Soviets’ Wonder Boy 11/2/35 150
Ranging Round the Music-World 12/35 153
Visitor from Mexico to Symphony Concerts [Chavez] 4/9/36 157
Vladimir Dukelsky, Alias Vernon Duke [date unknown] 160
New Placing of Rakhmaninov [date unknown] 164

Index 167