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Kalm an's Masterpiece
To the Editor:
IR. KALLMAN in his recent re-s
views of the Choral Union con-I
certs does grave injustice to the corpst
of music critics. Many invectivesI
rightly could be used to describe his1
reviews, invectives as violent as thosei
he uses and more justified. Suffice1
it to say that Mr. Kallman is guilty
of gross and juvenile hysteria.
His reviews lack perspective, bal-
ance and constructive criticism.
The man who sets himself up as a
critic, particularly of music, must
have a profound background in
the subject he professes to judge.
Furthermore, since music repre-
sents one of man's greatest and
most lasting achievements in artis-
tic and intellectual expression, the
critic should have a well-developed,
a thoroughly mature mind capable
of sustained and intelligent
thought. Without these rudiments
no person can take on the extreme-
ly difficult task of passing musical
judgment. A review of Mr. Kall-
man's reviews finds a conglomerate
of intemperate bombast and musi-
cally inane statements.
Mr. Kallman seems to be attempt-
ing George Bernard Shaw's now fam-
ous and hackneyed trick of violent
criticism. Shaw gained notoriety, then
with his superior judgment he gained
fame. The gentleman from Michigan
appears headed for oblivion; his
judgment does not back his line of
attack.
SPECIFICALLY. he states that Ra-
vel's "Bolero" must be the basis
for present day music. What he
means to convey is that he believes.
the use of the drum as a solo instru-
ment in the first movement of Shos-
takovich's Seventh makes the first
movement monotonous. Repetition
has always been a means in sym-
phony of impressing a theme. Beetho-
ven made use of it. Granted Ravel's
"Bolero" is monotonous. But Shosta-
kovich has a musical story to tell. The
musical greatness of the symphony
is how well does he portray his story.
As an amateur I believe he does a
superb job. The mark of greatness in
any critic is an ability to criticize
constructively. The musically uncul-
tured can write a condemnation. "Any
fool can criticize, and most do." aptly
applies.
Again the gentleman berates the
Seventh because he has to listen to'
"a longer than average blitzkrieg
persisting elephantinely all through
Shostakovich's Seventh Sympho-
ny." Set alongside the statement
of Dr. Koussevitzky, preeminent as
a renowned music authority. lie
states, "It is a great work which
will take a certain place in the
world's musical literature." With-
out rancor may I ask whose judg-
ment is at fault. When the appren-
Editorials published in The Michigan Daily
are written by members of The Daily staff
and represent the views of the writers only.
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tice deigns to criticize the master,
the apprentice plays the fool.
True genius is always precocious,
and we could forgive Mr. Kallman for
his caustic condemnations were he
to even show a flash of brilliance in
his reviews. Alas, such is not the case.
He berated Albert Spalding for very
inferior work. He set himself above
the judgment of "dinner music." He
majestically relegates Sibelius and
Tchaikovsky as second-rate compos-
ers with fifth-rate themes. Surely his
judgment is gntirely lacking.
But beside lack of constructive
criticism and lack of judgment our
noble knight lacks balance to his
published reviews,lHe always man-
ages to hear half the program. In
Spalding's recital, it was the first.
This time he appears to have ar-
rived quite late. It is only as an
afterthought that he added a men-
tion of Haydn's beautiful work.
HOWEVER we must not be too
severe in our condemnation of
Mr. Kallman. No man, however per-
fect his powers of analysis may be,
can dash off a masterpiece at 11 p.m.
and have it ready for the morning
press. -Caleb Warner
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Discrepancy
To the Editor:
THERE was considerable discrep-
ancy in the opinions expressed by
Dr. Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of
the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and
The Michigan Daily's alleged music
critic, Chester Kallman, on the rela-
tive merits of Shostakovich's Seventh
Symphony.
As indicated in Thursday's Daily,
Shostakovich's Seventh Symphony is
"great music on the basis of its mag-
nificent depth and power and excel-
lent musical workmanship alone."
These are the words of Dr. Kousse-
vitzky whose opinion on any classical
compositioncan be valued highly.
The Russian-born composer, in
answer to the charge that Shosta-
kovich's latest work had gained
considerable attention because of
its political significance, stated
that, "Aside from the fact that it
embodies Russian political ideol-
ogy, it is a great work which will
talie a certain place in the world's
musical literature."
But there seems to be a totally dif-
ferent opinion expressed in Mr. Kall-
man's criticism of the Symphony.If
I had .ot. heard the concert myself
and had noted- the appreciative and
enthusiastic;reception of the capacity
audience at,HilAuditorium Wednes
day nightz. I would have wondered
why anyonewould wanttopayatten
tion.. to Shostakovich,. :including the
conductors in- this country- who have
accepted his Symphony enthusias-
tically.
In direct contrast to Koussevitzky's
intelligent and rational interpretation
of the Symphony isM. Kallman's
shallow acgsal.that Koussevitzky
chose the Seventh Symphony because
of his fondness for Shostakovich
"The Symphony," Mr. Kallman wrote
"has a few raucous, good-natured
spots, but they are far apart and sep-
arated by stretches of insignifican
noise, illuminated here and there by
fifth-rank themes from second-rank
composers, notably Tchaikowsky and
Sibelius." And this immature critic
contrasts it to "pseudo-exciting pro-
grammatic boredom." I imagine there
are many Daily readers who are still
trying to untangle Mr. Kallman's
original use of the English language.
There isn't one intelligent Daily
reader who can put much stock in
Mr. Kallman's "'pseudo-interpreta-
tive genius" when it is in direct con-
trast to the intelligent criticism of one
who actually knows what he is talk-
ing about, as Dr. Koussevitzky.
MR. KALLMAN has been accepted
as music critic on The Daily be-
cause of his musical knowledge. His
criticism of the Seventh Symphony
fails to bear out this assertion.
-E.Z.
Witty Critic
To the Editor:
AS WAS only to be expected, The
Daily's music review of the Shos-
takovich Seventh presented Chester
Kallman telling us with bored mar-
tyrdom that the symphony was noth-
ing but a tangle of raucous and repe-
titious noise, that he had had a pain-
ful evening, and that Koussevitzky's
desire to perform the symphony was
merely the result of an uncritical en-
thusiastic whim.
The truth of the matter is that
almost everyone excepting Kallman
and his Klever Kompanions realized
that they were witnessing a magnifi-
cent performance of the work that
tells most fully the unconquerable
spirit of the Soviet people, their in-
tense suffering, love and brotherhood,
and the inspiring strength with which
they have defended their homeland
from the Nazi onslaught.
Almost everyone in the auditor-
im who was not impervious to a
love wider than the single heart
knew that this symphony was writ-
ten with blood and fire and an epic
love that is saving civilization and
that makes the witty Daily critic
look pretty insignificant.
I believe that most people will agree
with Mr. Kallman that Shostakovich
does not have the great genius of
Beethoven. But that is scarcely the
issue. The common men of the earth
are fighting to build a free future,
and they have a spokesman. Shosta-
kovich writes of all humanity: of the
Working people who are fighting for
their right to dignity, liberty and
love: the music he: composes sings
their affection and their blundering,
their wonderful courage, their deter-
mination before which we can only
stand and watch in worship and with
silent tears for the sorrow that ac-
companies their struggle.
THERE is banality in the music, be-
cause it is present in the people:
Mr. Kallman may call it a fault if he
will. It is very easy to sit on the side-
lines and make wisecracks. It is very
easy to retire into the self and come
out only to pronounce a -quip. The
fact remains that the common people
r have no passionate and exalting de-
fender in the field of music except in
Russia, and large numbers of the
common people look toShostakovich
with devotion. The private artist to-
day looks pretty futile.
t It is quite possible that Mr. Kall-
man has consorted too much with
poets who have descended out of
i sight in the deep well of self-love.
--Nelson Bentley, Grad
0 1442.Chicago Times. In&'
TRUTH HIDDEN:
American Censorship
Stops British Writers
E AMERICANS have a long history behind
us of taking things for granted.
We have lived in a relatively free, loosely-knit,
e4~-going society, and we have been prone to
assume automatically that all has been well with-
wut taking the trouble to examine things closely.
In wartime we are no longer a loosely-knit or
easygoing society, but our energies are so con-
o ntrated on the wat effort that we are even
more likely to overlook- flaws in our democratic
mac inery than in times of pece.
very significant flaw at the present time
volves American censorship of British cor-
ies ndents in this country. Our censors have
Sonsistently refused to let English writers send
isp tches to their home papers telling the truth
about American opinion on important war issues,
abo t imperfections in American society,*or about
aucd points of friction in the U.S. as the race
pro lem.1
C'rrespondents were not permitted to tell
the, English readers that the captain of the
ship Booker T. Washington launched Sept.
29, was a negro. And from a story on the
WAACs, the following sentence was blue-pen-
ciled by the censor, "It has been agreed there
will be no discrimination against color, which
means negro units will be formed."
Popular disapproval in this country of Church-
ill's India policy was also given the hush-hush
treatment by censors of dispatches sent to Bri-
tain.
The increasing irritability of the English cor-
respondents reached a peak a short time ago,
when- Alistair Cooke, of the London Daily Herald,
was unable even to send a dispatch to his paper
mentioning by name some of the things which
British writers are forbidden to send to their
home journals.
Cooke, along with his fellow correspondents,
readily admits the necessity of censorship for
military purposes. But when the blue-penciling
of American censors reaches the point of pro-
hibiting even mentioning by name the topics
which cannot be reported on, it has reached a
sad state indeed.
If we cannot be honest with our Allies, how
can we as a nation have any respect for our-
selves? If we do not permit an open airing of
differences of opinion on the issues of the war,
how can we expect a forthright approach to
the issues of the peace?
AMERICANS have always taken for granted
the integrity of our much-talked-about "free-
dom of the press." We must learn that in a
democracy we can take nothing for granted. In
a dictatorship a few rulers control all the govern-
mental machinery; in a democracy, where sov-
ereignty resides with the people, the people must
guard that sovereignty by keeping tab constantly
on their governmental machinery.
It is up to the people to demand elimination of
the narrow-minded, cowardly censorship which
we are imposing on our Allies.
- Irving Jaffe
NYA FRUITFUL:
Youth Project Justifies
Its Continued Existence
LAST YEAR many of the high officials in our
DREW Cie
PEARSON'S
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MERRY-GO-ROUND
WASHINGTON: Here is the inside story of
what happened at the famous banquet tendered
Wendell Willkie in Moscow, at which Stalin criti-
cized the British in the presence of the British
Ambassador.
Like most Moscow banquets for foreign dig-
nitaries, the dinner was followed by a long
series of toasts. The speakers were introduced
by Foreign Minister Molotov, four interpreters
scribbled in note-books, later translated into
Russian or English.
Thirty-second toast of the evening was that of
Major Grant Mason. Mason is a former director
of Pan American Airways, former member of the
Civil Aeronautics Board, and a crack flier. He
does not, however, pretend to be a speaker, and
little did he dream that his speech was to have
the most startling reverberations of the evening.
Mason's toast consisted of a straightforward
tribute to Russian and Allied pilots who "dare in
the air which they share."
The interpreters complained that they couldn't
translate this into Russian and make it rhyme.
But it rhymed with Stalin.
For after the champagne glasses clicked in
honor of Allied and Russian fliers and the com-
pany started to sit down, suddenly they discov-
ered that they could not sit down. For Josef
Stalin, head of all Russia, was speaking.
He agreed with the tribute to the fliers. But
he went on to say that many Russian fliers
were flying with cast-off equipment, with
planes the Allies did not want. With the Brit-
ish Ambassador listening, Stalin bluntly told
how, when the United States finally did send
some of the latest airplane models, they had
been taken off the ship in Scotland.
Stalin finished. There was painful silence. Sud-
denly the deep voice of Wendell Willkie boomed
forth in a soothing, diplomatic speech on the
importance of being frank among ourselves. Good
Allies must be frank, he said, but there was also
the danger that differences might pull the Allies
apart. This, he said, was what Hitler wanted.
Later the British Ambassador made a brief
speech in which he gave a complimentary ap-
praisal of Stalin, his leadership and all of the
things he had done for his country.
That ended probably the most historic Mos-
cow dinner ever held in honor of a visiting dig-
nitary.
Note: Stalin was quite correct that first class
American planes were taken off a Russia-bound
ship by the British. But he did not know that
Gen. Eisenhower, preparing for an African front,
and knowing that Airacobras were on the ships,
went to Prime Minister Churchill personally and
demanded the planes.
NYA. The NYA, since and before, has proved
itself beyond a doubt.
Aubrey Williams, NYA director, said recently
that approximately 20,000 students trained by
the NYA go into war industries "each week." At
the present time there are about 18,000 NYA
shops scattered throughout the Nation that are
equipped to handle well over 150,000 people as
trainees for war production work. These new
war workers are helping to relieve our great man-
power shortage.
The Army is in complete accord with the war
P'd Rather
Be Right_
=---- By SAMUEL GRAFTON -
NEW YORK- THE TOTAL VIEW: Mr. Mc-
Nutt has decided that everybody in the United
States is part of the manpower pool. This is one
of those bafflingly simple, yet profound discover-
ies, like the discovery that if you want to use
metal for planes, you cannot use it for autos.
That one took us a year and a half.
This matches the recent discovery that every
new soldier means one less male worker, while
almost every new male worker means one less
soldier. That one took two years.
This war is an adventure in simplicities, but we
still have a long way to go, to see them all, in all
their aggravating lack of complexity.
SHORTAGES COME IN GROUPS
WE HAVE just begun to realize that if the peo-
ple are made to eat less of one food, say
meat, they will eat more of another, say cheese,
reducing supplies of that, and so there is no such
thing as a shortage in one line; each shortage is
a lot of shortages. The meat shortage is a cheese
shortage, the coffee shortage quickly becomes a
cocoa shortage. Just as there is only one pool of
manpower, there is only one pool of food, and if
you take any item out of either, the level of the
entire pool drops.
We have made each of these pitifully naive
discoveries the hard way, as any business man
will testify, who saw the shortage in metal start
a stampede toward plastics, quickly translating
the metal scarcity into a plastic famine.
We are doing this in the transportation field,
too, of course, where we ration gasoline with-
out appearing to realize that such a move re-
quires almost simultaneous rationing of rail-
road tickets, as a big new load is piled on the
iron horse.
And those who talk about having fewer bureau-
crats and less controls during war-time are sim-
ply and completely mad, because they are defy-
ing the first law of nature and of economics.
OBVIOUSLY, IT MEANS CAULIFLOWER
THE GASOLINE shortage leads to a railroad
space shortage. That leads Food Director
Wickard (according to the Wall Street Journal)
to conclude that we may have to stop growing
such articles as cucumbers, cauliflower, etc.,
foods with the least nourishment value per car-
load; we must save shipping space for stuff that
sticks to the ribs.
Far from having fewer "bureaucrats," mean-
ing civil servants appointed by the other party,
we should probably have enough so that if one
bureaucrat says: "We must ration gasoline,"
a second bureaucrat will instantly add: "That
means we must ration railroad tickets," and a
third will chime in at once: "That's the end of
cauliflower."
Otherwise we stagger toward totality, never
quite reaching it, and dropping as many bundles
as we pick up.
IT'S THE SAME MAN
THE TOTAL view is a scarce article in a democ-
racy, we're not geared for it, and its absence
sometimes shows up in the field of public discus-
sion, too, as well as in the handling of the public
business.
A man invited to deliver a noon-time speech to
war-workers in a factory yard would certainly
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Pen.
YOU'VE heard a lot about WAVES,
WAACS, SPARS. Then something
feminine came up which was called
the WOW. Yesterday we learned that
a bunch of radio women at Belleville,
Illinois, stretched their imagination
to come up with WIRES. But have
you ever heard of a WAG that went
AWOL?
A WAG is one of those dog re-
cruits being trained for active ser-
vice at a Coast Guard dog training
station. This particular WAG is
part German Shepherd and part
Chow. The other night he got fed
up with Army discipline, broke his
tether, leaped to a window sill and
fled. Today he's in the doghouse
after the MP found him barking
out his freedom over a city dump.
YOU'VE heard of the old story "for
want of a nail the shoe was lost"
and ending up with the loss of a bat-
tle. Well, here's the modern version.
Mrs. Julien Hebert of New Or-
leans lost her temper when an An-
gora cat scratched her. She picked
up her husband's revolver, chased
the cat all over the house and
tripped over her small son. This
made the gun discharge and the
small son was wounded in the knee.
Shocked, Mrs. Hebert threw the
weapon she didn't know how to use
in the backyard. The gun dis-
charged again and wounded her in
the foot. The cat escaped.
-Bob Mantho
view to realize that "the public"
and "the war worker" are not two
- fellows, but, very often, the same
fellow.
Manpower people will tell you of
the trouble that has already been
caused by rosy optimism addressed
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