Show o i fi or me eri a gl e c RADICALISM NOW I RAMPANT ll IN MUSIC r I Modernist Music Is t tO Audience I I I II This is the age p of mil mu- music mu music sic in New Nw York a as so Gilbert ilbert V VI of or the tho Sun and Globe has described It In these thee societies ot of nationals national Internationals and aber- aber aber the current musical radicalism among composers Is h fit fit- fitly I fit fitly it- it itly ly represented Vh Where re there n once one guild now there thore are thice ee the Le League e of or Composers the In- In International In International Compeers guild the American Music guild mu- mu music mu music sic elc critic VI 1 W J Henderson of or The Herald u us that the tho guild guildas guildas as an Institution survives sunhe for mu- mu mutual mu mutual aid and aid protection of ot Its mem mem- mem members be hers bers and he adds that the members of these musical guild guilds need aId and prote prote Uon It if ever eser e er human be- be beIngs beings be beings lot ings did Old Possibly he was waa refer refer- referring referring ring to the ha base hae e greeted ted some of ot the ultra modern ultra music on their Sunda unda programs Mt h Gabriel on the other hand to find these concerts concert a re- re re relict lid from the vast Impregnable ot or the major sym sym- symphony symphony sym symphony IUd phony orchestras orchestra v S bile he cares to remember only two of ot their of- of offerings of offerings a 0 new Ernst Ernt Bloch quintet and 2nd Stravinsky's s 's Renard he finds those thoe more more Indeed than the great galleons galleon of ot orchestras bring bringus In months month He continues with witha witha a 0 nautical phraseology Call Call the guilds privateers They can adsen- adsen ad adventure lure ture in and out of ot waters naters Impo- Impo Imposible Impossible sible sibie to other craft They can dart among the tho of or and drifting quartet quartel tones 1 J h he can circle the Icebergs of or dissonance B U FLES lU RS One of or these ultra modern con con- con concerts cents wa was broad broad broad-ast aRt and as Deems Deem 1 Toy Taylor lor remarked in The orl l thousands of honest and God fear fear- fearIng fearing fearing ing radio amateurs must mut have hise gone morosely to bed bd last night in the firm conviction that their log sets were were hopelessly out of order Au Au er attuned to Peter Petr must ha have base e listened with Ith incredulity to Arthur Lourie s 5 Syntheses Mr Mr bin Ta TaIlor lor s 5 quarrel with much or of orthe the modernist music I is that It sounds as if IC it had been ben to prove provo something It I la is p-opa- p propaganda propaganda ganda music says ho he with aith the composer merely mer ly working oft off his surplus emotions In terms of sound much much as a man might swear ear oser oer osera oera overa a mashed thumb even oven In solitude At a later concert of ot the tho Corn Com Com the liS aas Guild one of pieces pIece an by Edgar arcs 1 Ich began begon with aith a minor ninth on the oboe At the tho end the asked VI v movement would you like to have base repeated All I or of It was the audiences audience's reply to someone In the bal ony added the amendment Half a tone tono higher this time Another form of ot modern music music- music the American popular song has song a also lao Invaded tI the concel conceit t halls hails The aslon was marked with wilh the debut of ot Elsie Janis Janla as A j concert artist Ho However eHr r as air she explained to her New ew York audience the e ewas was really nothing about her excepting the tho hall hail Itself Eva Evo Gauthier an ardent ardnt disciple of the liberals paid an even esen 0 more frank h to jazz by including In an othel l e highbrow Aeolian hall hail program tho fiso songs Alexander Alexanders s 5 Ragtime Band by In Ing Berlin The The Sirens Siren's Song by Jerome Kern Walter Valter Donald- Donald Donaldso sol Donald so s a C in the tho Morning and and I II Build a Stairway to Para Pant Paradiso Paradise dIsc dise Innocent Baby Bilby and Swanee all by George Gersh In v ho ho ed her accompaniments accompaniments for this group The audience so 0 relates Deems Dem Tai hone began b bs being Just jut a trifle patronizIng and nil ended by surrendering ering ening completely to the of ot oui out 0 ms own n toll folk music The reactions of or the tho critics were ere di- di diverse di diverse verse verBe ranging from an enthusiastic enthusiastic Sunday article by the catholic Ta lor to the attitude of or the new TrIbune critic Lawrence Gilman whom the exhibit left singularly While the rhythmic vivacity h and gusto or of orthe the songs he lie was depressed by vapid sentimentalism no less tess than thell lack of ot pUhl- pUhl pithiness ness nes or melodic Another dissenter was the Eng Eng Eng- English English lish lIh guest gust critic of The Times H HC HC HC C COlles who also when at nt homo horno Is the critic crith of ot the Lc London Lendon Times He f felt lt not only that these songs were not at homo home In the concert room but that the singer Inger was seas wa not at home bome In the thc songs song Said he Any singer of the variety stage could give her lessons In how to put the songs across to the audience |