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WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1980
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WHAT THE WEL THE BRAHMS B FLAT
DRESSEDWOMAN CONCERTO
SHALL WEAR BRAHMS Concerto No. 2 in B flat:
Pursuantto ourp I Op. 83 for piano and orchestra:
generalpolicy played by Arthur Rubinstein and
of up-to-the-minute news about the London Symphony 'Orchestra
every current happening of the under Albert Coates: Victor Mas-
civilized and semi-civilized hemi- terpiece Album No. 80.
heres, including Arkans One recalls one of Olin Downes'
herewith offer our annual Paris
letter, forwarded by our Official most enthusiastic reviews in the
Foreign Correspondent who was New York Times last spring. The
accidentally held up by a traffic occasion was the appearance in
jam of colliding taxis for an hour New York of Arthur Schnabel with'
before one of the leading fashion Koussevitsky and the Boston Sym-
houses of Paris whilst on his way phony Orchestra. In speaking of,
to see .the latest edition of les Fol- Schnabel's performance of the
iese. Vulgaires Little Red Riding Brahms' second concerto, Downes
Hood in Toyland. The following became amazingly assertive. From
notes and sketches are a resume a man generally so reticent, even
of the situation among the dress- non-committal, about his personal
mpakers as seen during our corre- tastes, the outburst seems signif-
g, icant.
spondent's delay., ,Downes' conclusion was that, un-
der such circumstances as he had
PARIS, July4-What will un- heard it (that is, played by Schna-
doubtedly prove an innovation bel and Koussevitsky who had
with American women is the use worked together in the Boston
of a mirror when dressing the Brahms Festival the week before),
hair, a practice which has become "this concerto dwarfs nearly every
quite the thing in the better cir- other work of its kind". "This
cles in le monde dore- (the 400). score", he added, "embodies all
The accompanying illustration of what is best and most distin-
shows how the mirror has become guished in Brahms at the climax
an indispensable in milady's bou- of his creative. power: not only is
doir among the discriminating, it a great concerto, it is one of
Brahms' greatest symphonies."
Even in such difficult circum-
stances as this recording allows (a
good piano performance from Ru-
binstein but an amazingly poor
performance from Coates' orches-
tra and the inevitable difficulties
of getting a big work onto a rec-
ord) one can see reasons for
Downes' enthusiasm and almost
agree with his conclusions.
It is a much bigger and more
important work than the violin
concerto. It is associated more
clearly than that work with
One of the principle considera- ! Brahms' effort to be an inclusive
tions in assembling the summer composer: a composer who records
wardrobe is to obtain an ensemble, all the details of his articulation.
The first requisite of the ensemble After all, the epigramic crystal-
is the skirt. The skirt may be lisation in the violin concerto
worn With the afternoon jewelry I (that makes for immediate pleas-
or the evening wrap and is au fait ure in and acceptance of the at-
on all occasions. Below is the il- titudes there) was not typical
lustration of the skirt when! worn Brahms, however enjoyable.
at golf. Skirts are being shown in Brahms in this piano concerto,
swiss alpenstock's cloth, drawn- as in all the more important works
work, and asbestos with piped bor- is quite as interested in the process
ders. of personal organization (as a sep-
arate experience in itself) as he is
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Night Editor - HAROLD WARREN
WEDNESDAY, JULY 9, 1930
THE SECOND PANAMA CANAL
Anouncement has recently been
made by the Canadian government
of the opening in September of the
new Welland Ship Canal connect-
ing Lake Erie and Lake Ontario.
This colossal engineering project
has been under way for sixteen
years, and has been completed at
a cost of approximately=$122,000-
000. Scores of lives have been lost
in the work of construction.
The new canal is comparable,
according to engineers, with the
Panama Canal, both in economic
importance and as a great work
of engineering. It will enable
ships .fully laden, to pass from one
end of the great lakes--to the oth-
er without delay; and it is esti-
mated that the tonnage of freight
that will pass through the locks
will be greater than that entering
and leaving any three of the great
sea-ports of the world.
Perhaps more significant than
anything else, however, is the spir-
it in which the canal has been
promoted and constructed by our
brethren across the border. Al-
though there was a minority fac-
tion in Canadian politics which ar-
gued against the carrying through
of the project on the grounds that
commercial and economic benefits
to be derived from it would be as
great, or greater, for the United
States as for Canada, the majority
of the statesmen and citizens of
the Dominion favored its comple-
tion, and, after insuring this, went
further to guarantee the use of the
canal to all nationalities free of
charge.
The obvious generosity of this'
move, and the spirit of neighbor-
liness with which it was made, are
an added assurance to the people
of this country that Canada de-,
sires nothing more than to cooper-
ate with us. for mutual advantage.
The strategic position of the canal,
its long-felt need, and the vast
scale on which it has been con-.
structed, make certain that it will
soon establish itself as one of the
most important of international.
trade arteries. The United States
would do well to return Canada's1
gesture by promoting as rapidly as
posible the St. Lawrence waterway,
project, which would complete the{
Lake Superior-to-the-sea, continu-
ous water route.
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Another variation of the skirt
motif may be seen in the following
sketch. Just where the skirt of-!
ficially ends and the blouse, an-
other requisite to every ensemble,
begins will probably remain a mat-
ter of considerable doubt through-
out the summer. There is rumor
afloat however, that with the com-
ing season, the blouse will either
disappear, entirely supplant the
skirt, or remain exactly as it is
at present.
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in the crystallised attitudes that
1result. It is a romantic interest in
the process of experience (which
comes to be almost identical with
personality). The profundity of
Brahms' personality made him
pretty nearly the major roman-
tic.
The themes have that long span
of apperception and richness of
implication that makes their com-
prehension a breath-taking exper-
ience. There is considerable cryp-
tic comment by the composer on
his own experience, subtly distrib-
uted through the intricate tex-
ture. The point is that the com-
poser's effort here is of a major
sort.
And yet there is none of the
clumsiness and heavy-handedness
undeniably characteristic of the
symphonies, similarly major ef-
forts. There is a striking balance
between solo instrument and or-
chestra that no other concerto
has achieved. Brahms was always
unwilling to submit to the domi-
nance of the virtuoso. Here he
has most successfully denied and
subordinated it. Nearly all the
entrances of the piano gain sig- j
nifance by reference to their or-
chestral preparation or orchestral
setting. The more salient details
of expression are divided and bal-
anced among piano and orchestra
with almost infallible taste. The
piano is used, rather than exploit-
ed. The work does, as a concerto
"dwarf every other of its kind" and
certainly it is "one of Brahms'
greatest symphonies."
Arthur Rubinstein is the pianist
who contributed regularly to those
amazing midnight musicales at
Muriel Drapier's "Edith Grove".
His playing here is very accept-
able. He has the necessary vig-
our for this type of music: the ex-
hilirating urgency of spirit (one
might almost call it argumentative
approach) correct for both Brahms
and Beethoven. His tone is cor-
rectly equable: there are no inten-
tional lovelinesses that would be
unique and personal but diverting.
And in all his animation he never
foreswears, clarity of outline.
The work of Coates and his or-
chestra is, as I have suggested,
miserable. There are unaccount-
able physical flaws in the orches-
tra and from the conductor an un-
necessarily humble subordination
to the pianist and a lack of pene-
tration into the score.
Yet, as I hope I have made clear,
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SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE
Such was the versatility of Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle, that it wouldJ
be difficult to say which of the!
manifold activities of mankind suf-
fered the greatest loss by his death
recently at the age of 71. England
will mourn sincerely the passing of
this man; but his fame is more'
than national. The whole world
will pause for a moment to note
with a feeling of regret the loss- of
one of its favorites.
It is unfortunate, perhaps, that
the world will remember him more
as the creator of a vivid character
of fiction than as the progenitor ofE
the existence of the occult or the.
defender of Britain's part in the,
South African war. The endeavors
-nc 'ai~ +% rn v a~w
The Shah of Persia cables in the
following little epic which goes
straight' to our heart. It bears the,
poignant title:
HEARTBREAK
I used to consider my room-
mate
A decent sort of guy;
We've been through plenty to-
gether,
My room-mate and I.
Buteverything is over,
He did me the worst of dirt,
He knew that I had a date to-
night,
And he sneaked out wearing
our shirt.
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Well, isn't life just like that now.
Come again,, your Majesty, you
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ewed with the same seriousness i helped us get swimming when we'
the world. But it is enough that wanted to.
has brought to many the enter- * * *
inment and adventure of reading Now how about the rest of you'
s books. Let his name be in- who are weary and heavy laden?
ribed on the rolls of history at r Let's hear you vent your spleens
ast as one who made life more now and then. Remember the aw-
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