The Daily Worker Newspaper, May 25, 1929, Page 4

a Page Four Soviet Music for Working | Masses Attains High Standard y epoc good c on gulation of cor all over the Soviet a per- evelopment rt perf Union, vanent een < meerts The ucted by the venerable V. I. People’s Artist, were alway h enthusiasm. L. P. § Under concerts U B, Haikin i xr whose perform een much appreci ted N Ballet (Grand Theatre) to con duct the orchestra permanently. While the concerts clude various | predominance is given to especially Chaikov- Korsakov and Mus- ourgsky Beethoven and Wagner | are the most popular among pean jassics. Contemporary composers e, however, not neglected. Shi ’s suite from opera Gnessi 's piano concerto, Korchmarev’s zite from “Ivan Soldat” and May ovsky’s Ninth Sympjhony have all yeen performed. Contemporary vestern r (Krenek, Casella and thers) net very popular with Moscow audiences, who demand ‘rom music content and emotional “uality as well as the external per- | is feetio ich is the chief concern of | conter re western music. et Disciples of Music. The ne reception is accorded | o the Soviet disciples of Western | Left formal tendencies, Mossoloy, | Roslavetz and others, whose wor sre not admired in their own coun- | try. The profound emotion of Bee- | hoven and Chaikov: however, | never fails of its effect, both on the | nore soph ed audiences of the | great concert halls or those of the { workers’ clubs. In addition to the Sophil, fre- | ouent concerts are systematically | given by the first unconducted or- | chestra, “Per-Symphans,” which has | eiven concerts of thé works ot French composers (Debussy, Ravel), | Prokofiev and others. Composed of | first class performers, the Per-| Symphans” is noted for the com- pactness of its sound-volume and the high degree of organization of its | performers. This orchestra has jus- tified its existence by six years of imereasing po) and by the fact that s lar ensembles have sprung up abroad. Regular sym- phony concerts are given by| the Mose Conservatorium, whose excellent orchestra pupils from the a= | levanov, conducting this orchestra, has it in splendid order, and has conducted difficult works, such as Mayakovsky’s Fifth Symphony. The best symphony orchestra is, how- ever, that of the Moscow Radio Sta- tion, giving jous concerts several | times a week to large audiences in| a specially equipped “Radio The- atre.” This orchestra is conducted | by G. G. Scheider, It has performed reany Gifficult new works, such as Mondarelli’s “September,” dedicated | to the anniversary of the Bulgarian revolution; Shostakovich’s sym- phony, Krein’s “Funeral Ode to Lenin,” the works of Balakirev and others. | Chamber Music Popular. | The current season was begun with Chaikovsky, one of the most popular composers among audiences | in the U. S. S. R. All concert or- ganizations prepared for the thir- tieth anniversary of Chaikovsky’s death with the utmost care and no- table performances of the great composer’s work were given. One of the most brilliant of these was the “Manfred Symphony,” conducted “by People’s Artist Suk and per-| formed by the Sophil Orchestra. Many chamber performances of Chaikovsky’s works were also given. Moscow is also particularly rich in chamber music. Hindemith and Dresen quartets, despite their Euro- pean reputation, showed them to be below the level of our own en- sembles. The best string quartet in the U. S. $. R. is undoubtedly the Glazunov quartet, which system- atically tours! the whole Soviet Union, carrying the best chamber mausie to provincial workers’ clubs. Next to them comes the Stradi- | varius quartet and the Moscow State Conservatorum quartet. Moscow has many string trios—j| three under the auspices of Hyppo- | lite-Ivanov, the “Moscow Trio” and three attached to Stanislavsky’s stu- | dio, Their concerts, which are regu- | larly attended, especially in work- ing class districts, cover an enor-| mous repertoire, ranging from Bach to modern Soviet and foreign com- posers, | | also have | ow, such Lubimov’s primitive » Pavlov’s ensemble ments, the String Quartet, chiefly playing on wooden instruments, for variety of timber, and pe ing an riginal folk song repertoire. Musical Talent on Increase many young soloists made their appearance, not un- y of European platforms, as the pianists’ competi- tion saw, where the young Moscow pianists Oborin and Gins- rg carried off the palm. Igu nov, Neigaus, Oborin, Sofronitsk nsburg, Brushkow, Fineberg, Kaminsky and others give regular concerts. The young pianist Edel- shows promise of developing pianist. Moscow is the best of whom he young hman who twi emerged the victor in violinist com- tions got up by the Per-S; Joseph Sigetti, in his yearly received with m by the Moscow Folk Music Encouraged. Much attention is devoted to na- ve talent among the races com- osing the Soviet Union. Perform- of folk-song and native works, uch as Villom’s Ukrainian string rtet and the “Dumka” Ukrainian , one of the best choirs in the 2., Bandurist ensembles and obzari frequently visit Moscow from the various republics, while there are even permanent groups propagating the art of their na- tionalities, such as the “O, D, Kam- eneva ensemble of Eastern songs and dancing,” the Armenian House of Culture ensemble, the Jewish vocal quartet, the Ukrainian studio, a While Russian choir and others in Moscow. There is, unfortunately, not much that is new for solo singers, revolu- tionary composers for some reason having passed over concert singers in their works. There is, however, of late a tendency to use Soviet themes for songs and Polianovskaya-Geibt- man has devoted two children’s con- certs to pioneer songs. Friends of Musie Plan 20 Symphony Concerts in Mecca Temple The Friends of Music announce that next season’s twenty concerts i | Old and New Two of the principals, Yastr and Mme. Puzhnaya, in the “The Village of Sin,” the first p in its second big week at the Lit DAILY 25, 1929 WORKER, NEW YORK, SATURDAY, MAY sia Clash . oa Rus ebitzky, who plays the old Kulak role of the heroine, in the Sovkino film icture directed by a woman, now tle Carnegie Playhouse. Revolutionary Anthology Is Excellent Work, Despite Faults AN ANTHOLOGY OF REVOLU- TIONARY POETRY, Edited by Marcus Graham, with an intro duction by Ralph Cheyney and Lucia Trent. The Active Press, 26 Union Square, New York, $3.00. Reviewed by EDWIN ROLFE. y a false ap- Although marred proach and a totally misleading con- ception of the m ng and si; nificance of the term “revolutionar; ! Marcus Graham in his preface designates the contributors to the anthology as “these justice-loving poets,” thereby laying bare the vagueness of his revolutionary and working class ideology. He speaks ;of the completion and publication of |the collection as his “dream come true.” It is significant that he praises dreamers of a new society, not workers for a new society. “Dreaming while at work, dreaming ‘on the part of its editor, this an-| While rebelling, dreaming while in of the society will be given in Mecca | Auditorioum, which seats about 3,- 500. This change to a larger audi- tori which will more than double society’s audiences, is an important step in the Friends of Music new program. Arthur Bondanzky, who will be the conductor, has prepared for next season a program containing nine full-length works of Bach, Haydn, Handel, Brahms and others, as well as shorter choral and instrumental compositions. Taking part in these works will be maay leading soloists from the Metropolitan Opera and concert stages, with the Friends of Music chorus augmented to 140} voices. The twenty concerts of the Friends of Music are divided into two series, one of ten Sunday after- noons, the second of five Sunday afternoon, four Tuesday evenings and one Monday evening. The sea- son opens Sunday, Oct. 27 and closes Sunday, Mare! . INDICT JUDGE FOR GRAFT SAN FRANCISCO, May 24.—A police judge, seven policemen and fifty other persons were indicted for prohibition graft by the grand jury here today. J. Silver of Alameda. Evidence was ebtained against him by dictaphones in a blind pig. The judge is Edward |lauded Brancusi for attempting “to| | | nevertheless remains the best and most comprehensive of its kind ever published. Not only poets writing in the English language are included in its pages, but also those who have written in Armenian, French, Chinese, German, Greek, Hungarian, Indian, Italian, Japanese, Yiddish, Norwegian, Rumanian, Rus- it panish, Ukrainian, and even it. Taken as a whole it is a gigantic and most welcome achieve-! ment, worthy of the many years of labor expended on it. Travelling over almost virgin soil (for no other | collection of revolutionary poetry of any completeness has ever been| thology attempted in English) its editor has|t@ining a collection of revolutionary |§160,000,000. nevertheless brought together scat-| tered threads into a most powerful | unit. He has resurrected from the | imperfect in technique, it is to be’ the Working Class From the Bot- pages of half-buried and forgotten | ¢xpected in a movement which has| tom Up—at the Enterprises! journals gems of revolutionary poetry and verse which might have been, if not lost permanently, de- layed for a period of many years. And in doing so he has covered a period of more than two centuries. The collection is sullied, however, | by its editor’s entire approach, which | is definitely not that of a class-con- scious working class revolutionist, but that of a petit bourgeois ro- mantic who is irritated personally} by the capitalist system without genuinely understanding the oppos-| ing forces in class conflict. This is evident not only in the character of many of the poems included, but in the preface and introduction. The volume is dedicated to that “most |} misunderstood and misrepresented, | most distorted and maligned of all ideals laid bare before humanity—} the ideal that signalizes man’s com-| plete liberation from every form of| economic, political, physical and spiritual bondage — Anarchism.” Ponder the phraseology and con- tent of this dedication and you can immediately penetrate the mind and} motiviation of the editor of “An Anthology of Revolutionary Poetry” | and consequently the reason for his| romantic and all-too-catholic ap-| proach to his task, One can immedi- | ately understand the inclusion of such poems as “The Hollow Men,” by a selfavowed Royalist and Cath- olic, T. S. Eliot, “Courage,” by John Galsworthy, “Commission,” by Ezra Pound, and many others of their like. I ean imagine Pound, who once save the world by pure form,” chuckling when confronted with this tribute to his revolutionary zeal. jail, dreaming in defeat (!), dream- ing, forever dreaming!” This praise is easily understood when one realizes that Graham is himself a dreamer and far from a revolu- tionist. It could not be otherwise. Anar- chism, especially that form of primitive anarchism which Graham advocates*, is but another manifes- tation of bourgeois hypersentimen- talism and romanticism, which, ul- timately, identifies itself with stark reaction. Despite all this, the anthology re-|the Yates oil pool in Texas. ‘new concern will have assets of | Will yet contribute in greatness with | ma ns an excellent piece of work con- verse as yet unsurpassed. While the poems are still, for the most part, far more important work to do than write poetry and sing songs. Later on, when the workers have achieved socialism, “technique will become a more powerful inspiration for. ar- tistic work and later on the contra- diction itself between technique and nature will be solved in a higher synthesis.” *“Most encouraging of all is the spirit prevailing uppermost in the very outcry against the new Frank- enstein creation of the presen: machine—monster that is annihila ing bit by bit everything that is human within man.” p, 11—Preface.) FIGHT FOR MILLIONS CHICAGO, May 24.—Mrs, Stan- ley McCormick, wife of the chief owner of the harvester fortunes of the McCormick Harvester Co., ap- plied yesterday in court for the con- trol of $35,000,000 belonging to her husband, who has been insane for 20 years. Two brothers of McCor- mick have possession of the cash now. TUDOR INN Restaurant 113 East 14th Street For good and wholesome food, don’t fail to visit us We serve special luncheon plates from 11:30-3 p. m. Reasonable Prices TRY OUR SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER! 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BRODY Russia just after | the ateht war" | Hollywood has travelled the way i ..| predicted for it by the Soviet pro- an 1 ae 18’ ducers in the use of sound and talk- pable for the| img films. A great invention has ub k e for the! been perverted and misused and has work of 0184) set the motion pictures back fifteen ae s Chekova, for-| : ‘ Olga Chekova - jor twenty years with but faint pros- H merly a member | yects for recovery. of the Moscow Art Theatre and who| has been pronounced by European| In a joint statement issued some crities as one of the finest emotional, time ago by Eisenstein, Pudovkin artistes of the screen. The photo-|and Alexandrov, it was clearly graphy as well in this film has been| Stated that only by using sound compared with the best Russian|contrapuntally, that is independently photography and the director, Car-| and as an aid to visual rhythm could |mine Gallone, has long been recog-| any progress be achieved with so im- nized as one of the foremost Euro-|portant an invention. The film com- position or mounting is to be affec- pean cinema experts. | e On the same program the Film| ted only insofar as sound helps its rhythm and intensifies its visual Guild Cinema is presenting a short reel, called “Lufthansa; Germany | Values to ‘sound or talk is a step in the Air” which presents with| backward in what has already been vividness the work of the German #chieved by the purely cinematic ef- air passenger service, is only ex-|fect of the film. ceeded in safety and thoroughness < by the Soviet air service, the latter | low the way of least resistance was of which has just completed six years of its existence without a/ ingle accident. sounds and cause actors to talk meant “to photograph and imitate the stage,” they said. To develop the | Prostessively and as an independent jart sound must be applied to a film jso that neither its internationalism Inor its strictly cinematic value will | be lost. 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Arbuthnot, one of the founders and The Russians | former dean of the Pittsburgh Medi- warned the movie world that to fol-| cal College. Covering over thirty-five hundred | dangerous. To merely make realistic | miles, from Cairo to Tanganyika, the motion pictures take in many of the African villages, showing the aboriginal life of these natives and their tribal ceremonies. “The Knife” starring Violet Ham- ing and Lionel Atwill, is a supple- mentary attraction on the pro- gramme. Film at Little Carnegie The Little Carnegie Playhouse announces a specially arranged mu- sic score accompanying the Sovkino film, “The Village of Sin,” made up of twenty Russian pre-revolutionary and Soviet folk songs and works adapted from Ru ’s new school of modern compo: , Anzev, Buglai, Maiman, ete. Also, Stravinsky’s “Le Petrouchka” as an overture to the film. 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