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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1923
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TONE PAINTING but he never succeeded in duplicat- perhaps as men of the hour, but we It might seem unnecessary to delve
(Continued from Page Seven) ing the worth of his "Pagliacci." The know only too well how often these into the music of Spain at this june-
' same can be said of the more old-fash- men pf the hour siffer at the hands ckf .tureIinvew f the coprehesive
cancteihaps tnof tE stxmpesIoned Mascagni and his "Cavalleria future generations.
can cite is that of Edward Elgar, En- Rusticana" Somewhat less radical in style is he treatment so ably accorded the sub-
ighma odoubt but belongimewgt tss Almostinstyj isthi okb ar a.Vctn
the ldot large. His works inc u Almost simultaneously with the rise music of the late Scriabin, and the ject in a book by Carl Van Vechten.
almost every form of musical creation, of Russian music, that of Germany Finish composer Sibelius. These Suffice it to say that the musical school
but he is especfally adapted to writing seemed torcolapse completely. This men infuke a distinct northern tinge of the Lktin country received a severe
~herubinis, Iteyerbeers, and others. seemed strange, for in Germany there in their work, but yet are mor'e co . Get-back due to the untimely death of
This third influence cannot be gain- were at least four men who appeared mopolitan than national, I think. Si- Enrique Grenados during the war. Un-
said to show great promise, particularly belius, being still alive, may be won fortunately he happened to be aboard
Richard Strauss, who started out by over to the more radical writers in one of the ill-fated vessels- sunk by a
Having now presentHd the two ex~ hewing. out a path for himself in the time; he seems to tend that way at German submarine. Germany has
teme views that exist- today in mod- field of the symphony, as Wagner had any rate. Nevertheless at this writ- since paid the Spanish government
en music, and indicated that the done in opera. After a very success- ing, he can. be classed as quite mod- and his family a tremendous indem-
trend of events musical seems to be ful beginning which included a long erate. Scriabin, on the other hand, be- nity, adding a bit of irony to the stua-
gpreat vocal and choral works such as list of splendid symphonic poems, his came increasingly radical as he pro- tion with a note of apology. But sadly
watorio and opera. His symphony in inspiration simply seemed to leave gressed, and actually calls for per- enough, genius canrnot' be repoed
A Flat, according to Mason, is one of him, and he now is performing all fumes to be circulated through the with material gain. Other Spanish
tire greatest symphonic contributions kinds of wild antics, losing many ar-'house in the circulae ou te wt maer gin. Othe Lan wh
ainth performance of one of , composers of note include Labo who
of the present generation and closely dent supporters he at first won to him- his later symphonies. became famous with his L'Roi d' Ys.
ies with Rachmaninoff's work in E self. Max Reger was destined to be Truly moderate are Moskowski and Alb eniz is also eminent by virtue of
7minor (his second symphony) for im- another Brahms in the minds of the Rachmaninoff who rely on beautiful his works for pinoforte, while de Sara-
portance. Elgar, Holst and Holbrooke critics, but he rapidly disintegrated melody deftly applied and treated in sate, who died in 1908, composed chief=-
form a splendid nucleus for musical into a most commonplace sort of writ- rich harmony, with good supporting ly for violin.
development in modern England and er. Mahler also gave early evidenes counterpoint. The former was living. In closing, I might state that Aiier-
I think stand well ahead of the x- of true genius, but could not get away terribly in want in Paris some time can musical life seems to be but a"
tremist Cyril Scott. The latter claims from satisfying the public taste and ago. It is known now that the relief replica of that I have so briefly gone
he got over the childish habit of writ- went slowly down hill. Trying to o 'so splendidly carried on in America over as the European situation. We
ing melodies long ago, and I might all kinds of new things he wrote sym- for his benefit finally' reached him. have our various composers of all
add, his works sound like it. There 1phonies that would fill a complete pro- The Russian, Glazaunoff, an outgrowth sorts, the conservatives, the moderns,
are some who may care for ryin, buti gram in themselves, much as one goes of the true Russian school of the past aand the ultra-moderns. Among the
I to a single opera in one eyening, but century, like Rachmaninoff, Prokofieff last named I have already mentioned
lieve he will outlive his generation. these have had but indifferent suc- land hosts of others, is now in Amer- Ornstein and Bloch, the latter being
Then Edward German, a man who cess. At present Wolf-Ferrari, the ca. He is a true moderate in the sense really a Swiss, although he makes
writes almost exclusively in lighter young half-Italian, and possibly Brueh that German, Massenet, and the real Cleveland his present home. Hadley,
vein, is still of the old-fashioned style seem to be one of the chief hopes of Puccini were. Quite interesting is Schelling and the very promising
ands very pleasing. Gaosens and Ron-'future musical Germany. This coun- the work of Reinhold Gilere. If judged young Leo Sowerby, are also figures
aId are other interesting representa- try was extremely unforturate in the only by his symphonic poem "The oustanding. Then the unfortunate
tives. recent untimely death of the more Sirens" we might say his tendencies death of Charles Griffes some years
The works of Gustav Hoist are o moderate Humperdinck and of the la- are distinctly futuristic, but that he ago probably robbed our country of a
particular interest to us at this mo- Imented Hugo Wolff, a young man who is a transitional worker can never very fine musical prospect. Whatever
ment due to his recent arrival in gave early promise of great genius. be doubted. His early works reveal has been said for or against it, no true
America. Ann Arbor may feel par- The music of the Slavs is one of distinct orthodoxy. Ippilitoff-Ivanoff genius has as yet arisen in musical
ticularly honored in that the Amer- the storm centers of art discussion to- has unfortunately not been heard from America to unify the situation and es-
can premiere performance of his day. From the great land of the Mus- since he disappeared in the Caucusas tablish a school. MacDowehl was un-
"Hymn to Jesus," a work for chorus covite, Russia, seemingly come the in 1914. - deniably great and his work tended
and orchestra, will be conducted here most radical of radical creators. Take Little is known of the musical life teward the more modern and cosmo-
by the composer himself on the sec- for example the case of Prokouleff, 'of the unhappy Austria and Balkan politan. This I verily believe can but
ond evening of our thirtieth May Fes- Stravinsky, with that of the German States. We hear of great operatic be the fate of any American art, as this
tival. The piece has already attract- Schoenberg, and then come to Ameri!- activity in Austria, of a young corn- country must be but the result of a
ed much favorable attention in Eng- ca to call to mind names including poser by the name of Konngold who great fusion of European characteris-
land and for that reason Hoist will Bloch and Ornstein, and we have the after indifferent success ,won great tics, after all. This, then, would tend
no doubt be the cent'ral focus of in nucleus of a school that has most sim- fame with his opera. "The m ai Pjtl to noce us in the position of-prospee-
terest in' his dual role of composer and ilar tastes and ideas. I hardly think A truly modern work it is, an'd W &.,' loaders in a new and great. art
conductor. Other works of his to be it possible 11ryi e-.en a Critic could tell can but liopq for more productions mirO7t mnent of the present and future.
performed at the Festival are the Or!- the work c cne of these men from from his pen. Enesco, a more mode
ental Suite "Beni Mora," Op. 29, No. 1, the other, although they tell me it ate type of artist, toured America this LAi the black color of the river's
"A Dirge for Two Veterans" and theIsgetcnutr t~- aei
suite from the opera "A Perfect Fol." can e, a i, done Nevertheles, year. A est iutr at aces comes all from shade; ad one
tat I do not sce ';ow their pro:JuS n c:m+ the large cities, icluding Detroit, le ye the saie in hollow caves."-
It also might be well to note that all live. Tght now they are seized upon brou ht out many of his works. -Empedocles
the various schools of Europe still -
have musical mighties Nvho cannot e
classed with Elgar, Holbrooke ,Sibe
lius, Rachmaniuncf and others, but
who, still more conservative, d con
tribute most lovely things to mu ica-
literature, much in the manner c E'
ward German in England. France:
has a largo quota of these men, and 6 -"
they surely get the French atmosinierI
in their creations. I have reference
chiefly to the late Saint-Saens, 2as -
sernet, and to Messager of those still
living. More modern types of French -/
writers are numbered among D'Indyi
the late Debussy, Berlioz and Cesar
Franck, who surely were ahead of \O
their time, and the men Charpe-tie
and Delbes. Paul Dukas and Maurice. the'c ewx 1a1l andWinter
iRavel, like Cyril .Scott in England
again show French musical art in
extreme phases, although I must c m--
fbss their- work, little as I have heardT
of it, pleased me more than that o
the English composer. Erik Satie is:
the outstanding figure among a group;
of promising young men barely out n adaptation of an excius- as a cavalry offcer in pa-
of theo conservatoiry. ;.veEishm o4 ote;aeu ifr ut ue
t The Italian Ptccini has shown binm'! ' gI e10- e rad uniform, but in se, it
self to he hone too sure of his groundc nees-oftheAmerican-\M an stands at ease all the day
o' late. Having 'composed SUCh ex-
cellent operas a "La Tosca," "Ma° ' who cares about style and long:
non Lescaut," "La Boheme," "Madam Buy you cellars of a reputable retal,
Butterfl " masterpieces no doubt, but er. He won't offer you a substitute
all in older, well established styles, ',when you ak for a VAN HEUSEN. He
l now is turning to new thought and L appearance s s art knows there isn't any.
Ss been none too successful, if the
critics' judgment may be believed. His 'o
latest opera, they say, is truly pa- N6ROUghEdS v earsLOngt
thetic, and if 'so, then is the case of
.uccini surely pathetic. This man:
lA s earned for himself a great name i t Yr nk SayesYour Shirts SaVes YourTe
as an opera composer, and we may all
lope he will not los" the' reputation by
trying to ife queer. For the rest of the,
Italian school we may say that a lot!
experimentation is going on. After
a. long period of operatic ascendency
elosing with Verdi, no doubt, musi- PATINTD q
cal Italy seems to be undergoing con-
siderable transition. Men like Piz-S
zetRespighi, Wolf-F'errari, who Is re
half German, by the way, and others;
are writ'sg in the free style with some !PHILLIPS-JONES CORPORATION, Makers, 1225 Broadway, New York
uces / Leoncavallo's works are
SUNDAY MAGAZ1NE
' ANN ARBOR, MICHIG AN, SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1923
Car anbrg do masoher
A Poet of the People
CARROLL LANE FENTON-
Five Gary bohunks fell into a fur-
nace of white-hot steel, and theirT
flesh and bones were burned up along
with a few tons of limestone and other
junk. A Taylor Street dago carried an
armful of red, green, and orange bal-
loons, selling them to the kids for a I
nickel. A vaudeville dancer died, and
the show had to be called off because
there was no' one else who could' han-
dIe her stunts. A worn,, paint-faced I
woman, put out of business by the
harness bulls, philosophized, on love
to a parrot, a goldfish, and two white
of such stuff Carl Sandburg makes
poetry. To read his books is to go!
to the dirtiest corners of the cities
and watch there the tormented souls j
who' failed because they couldn't suc- I'
ceed-because the world damned
them and railroaded them to the'
dumps rather than see them have a!
chance to make good. One sees life j
as it is lived, not by the gang that gets
the news space, but by the countless
millions who actually do the living,
and working, and dreaming and slav-'
ing of this world; who are born and
who live between punches of the time- I
cloch's. One is shown the cool, flower-i
decked tomb of- a millionaire', and is;
then shoved face to face with the real-
ization that
In a hundred furnishod' rooms is!
a girl who sells silk or dress good s;
or leather stuff for six dollars a
week wages.
And when she pulls on her rtcek-
ings in the morning she is reckloss
Univ- i' 'ty of .chiga n
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junk worn-out system
murder ,and. to- settle
But his dream did no
stead of seeing an
he saw the greatest
war that thel world ev
Under the. sun
Are sixteen million
Chosen for shining
Sharp' eyes, hard le
An a running of yoi
in their wrists.
And a red juice ru
grass;
And a red juice so
soil,
And sixteen millior
ing, . . . and kill
Of course, he was r
to maintain, that this
liake other wars. Thi
ness, big business,
through on a big scal
armour, knights, gene
ly fought, and who 14
best, but a few hundre
-ll were gone. The
by Big Berthas, me
planes, generals in
hces and armies nun
million 3. But the pi
same as in- the old c
killed, as in the old da
would settle little or
she old days. But it
SanAburg. He put o
ethc: and ho got:
In the old wars 1
and thousands of
the new wars la
he wars t( co~'e, kir
rhe dust and mill
i"'xwin. great caus
out in. the heads o
When the U'nited St
wm , Sandhurg fcund
crtai. lie hated at
at o dcep that he
t m~'e being. that his 0'
idby the most al
about God and the newspapers a:<
the police, the talk of her home
town or the names people call her.
A pretty picture? Hardly. But taL:e-
a walk along Archer Street about mid-
night, or hang around a north side
cabaret when things begin to warm
up. Look into the face of the girl
who asks you, in drawling, question-
ing tones, what time it is. Take a good
look at that girl, and search for her
face when you are bargain hunting in
a department store basement, or eating
your pie and beans in a downtown
cafeteria. Do these things before you
venture to call Carl Sandburg a'liar.
But this world contains tnfortun-
ates whose lot is harder than that of
slaves who sell gew;gaws in
the basement of the Market Store.
'he young Italian widow, pulling on-
ions from early morning to late nifht.
happy because she will bear a c(.idi
in three months, and too short-sighted
to think of the time when she must
beg forethe flour and bacon that ;7-
feed her baby, lacks o;ven the s'ah -
blest kind of glamcur. The por dcB.
out of a job half the 'Lmne lh'ng in
constant fear of his b s and the lc;=
sharks ;who, instead of thinkinf: ofl
his home and family in terms of " 'ai
ditional honey-sweetnoss, cries!
"I wish to God I never saw you.
Mag,"
has been a v ry real figure these last
few years, when bums struck every4
,dsser-by for a dime, and men killed
each other in order to get enough
wages to keep theim alive. One day I
stood on a Chicago street corner,
Comewhere in the neighborhood of,
Madison Street and Racine. For the
moment I forgot the bulletin boards,
chouting about a bumper year, and
everybody helping the return to nor-
walcy. I watched the dirty, tobacco-
chewing, booze-fighting crowd that
eddied about, coming from nowhere
and going to nowhere. I watched their
shamed haste as they grabbed "snipes"
from the sidewalk, their hungry looks
into greasy hash joints, and their dull
hopelessness as- they stumbled out
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JWawing ,!by Ilfal-my D'u'.:U
.m one corner anoterr, L) ndR_ a 4 Y' ,.'crack sdanenlets sIas e ine r s m.,
steaLi, curse and yaw (, and walk, walk, hihts p} C'em
lop1.1XngoGesmand
ak, or stand motionless, dul, and' Into one more bank messenger-- v the force of his ow
Or . . . boys steal coal in a railroad poted the war Wi
' mi" card either support or the
ucyers .. And run with humped gunnysacks Debs, and Carl Sant
Sta'obinglthe sides of the dnteni i -his ophisticainbl
Were tie cay gleans yellow, While a bull picks off one of the kids itt
Driving the blades of their shovels And the kid wriggles with an ear in But even though h
Dee'per and deeper for the new cinders war was for a noble
Ss mains; And a mother comes to carry hoie burg had no delusions
Wiving the sweat fro.n their faces A bundle, a limp bundle, And when peace cam
With red bandanas. To have its face washed for the last istealing and petty gra
h muokers work, on . . . pa u- tf e. r yt s - still less opportunity I
.b...to pull ~"ol
Thr oos utofthOsnlyoesI art of teothehe19 ~San.1dburg-ha d hoo
e tey soutsofthe suC1ho12s biggest part, maybe, but not the most Ithe nobility of nation
w he-rte- slOSh thriing, nor the most horrible. For causes, and had got ba
Of the twenty looking onl
t t y g t men, who spend so much of their 'he held five years h,
Ten murmur, "0 it's a hell of a time fighting, and burning, and kill- once more the sava
. 'ing, are but the miniatures of nations whose great ambition i
Ten others, "Jesus, I wish I had that continually run amuck and start men die in order that
the job." a grand international riot, called war. and he saw the dreadfi
Thday somne of the men in that And these wars, being international,1 under the guidance o
crowd have jobs. Some of them live are of necessity big, involving millions 'who hated, and stole,
in the county jail, put there because where a gang fight involves dozens. when they might have
they were hungry and tried to get Carl Sandburg, a man intensely of the Seven nations stood
grub the only way men can get grub present, li-ing in a big city, and work- on the jaws of de:
who have no money. Others still hang ing for a bIg paper, was keenly sens-I. It was the first w
about the corners, or do odd jobs and tive to the human elements of the ; Nineteen Hundred
live in south Clark Street "hotels," struggle that began in 1914. But to I was listening, you
where you can get a bed for six bits him that struggle was neither glor- the whole world w
,a week. And a few, more courageous ious nor even justifiable; it was mere- And all of us heard
or more despondent than the rest, took ly murder on a gigantic scale, legal- 'imuring:
a long sleep in the Chicago River, if ized because it was more powerful '"I am the way and
they could jump off a bridge when the than the law, which it twisted this He that believeth
harness bulls weren't looking. way and that, as convenience demand-1 Shall not perish
* * # ed. It was an orgy of killing-kill- But havo everlasti
But the struggles of life are not ing made proper, killing made scien- ! Seven nations heard
all single struggles little , k - tific, killing made fashionable, praise- answered:
all single struggles, little fiht , kick- worthy, and compulsory. There was "O Hell!"
backs of the city where nothing beautiful about it, and Sand- I The jaws o death
The blood of a child's head burg, who believes in humanity, ex-! and they go on clio
Spatters cn the hub of a motor netea humanitvn n an so gtin tn -_ "'n ,i"