MUSIC in a WAR YEAR a Jewish Poet Remembered by DANIEL SHORR Turned to South America to an Unprecedented Degree

JS i iSS 27, 1940 Friday, September THE SOUTHERN JEWISH WEEKLY Page Nine MUSIC IN A WAR YEAR A Jewish Poet Remembered By DANIEL SHORR turned to South America to an unprecedented degree. Toscanini Writing this review ten years virtually devastated in Europe, as and his NBC Symphony Orchestra have much to say a «ro we would all culture lies in ruins. And even and Leopold Stokowski with a in Europe of 'musical activities to Palestine, where refugees had youth orchestra both of which during the past year, and of Jew- come and given promise of erect- included a goodly proportion of participation in these activi- ing a fine musical tradition, the Jewish musicians made highly ish write of the Salz- ties We would horrors of Hitler’s Europe fol- successful tours of Latin Ameri- iMeE Htt i burg festival, the Bayreuth festi- lowed them, overshadowing music ca, helping to solidify in the mu- Est .I val, of the work of the Paris Con- in the Holy Land with bombings. sical field the strengthening bond servatory, the Czech Philharmon- "Wars, revolutions, have not al- of pan-American unity. Such so- ic, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the ways affected arts, which seem to ¦oists as Jascha Heifetz also Vienna Opera. live their own life, according to oured South America, and Heifetz But this is October, 1940. There their own laws,” Ernest Bloch, the set new attendance records. La- famous composer, iare Saminsky has been a year of war. Music lies recently wrote was in South to us. “But this is more than an America conducting concerts and .” ordinary war. ecturing on American music. This is a total war, and its de- Palestine strove valiantly to struction is total, killing not only fulfillher young but rapidly grow- life, but art and the spirit that is ing, musical tradition, but there necessary for art. And in the gen- were mountainous obstacles cre- eral term “war” we include all ated by the war and the resultant that Hitlerism has done; for the economic stringencies. The Pales- il jbh j “war” started in 1933, when Hit- tine Symphony Orchestra, found- i BF ler’s drive against the Jews was ed by Bronislaw Hufcerman and launched—that was the first stage consisting largely of refugees, of the Blitzkrieg. managed to include a successful And so the review of the musi- season, with Huberman among the cal year might confine itself to soloists and Felix Weingartner this one line—“for the past year as a guest conductor. Emil Haus- there was War”—were it not for er, director of the Palestine Con- America. The effects of Hitlerism servatoire of Music, came to the sent here famous Jews, among United States to aeek support for other musicians Jaromir Wein- his institution, which has rescued berger from Czechoslavakia, Mar- scores of young Jewish musicians io Castelnuovo-Tedesco from It- from Europe. However, the inten- A' Pen Club delegation visiting the tomb of J. L. Perez, famous aly, Darius Milhaud from France. sification of the war and its spread Jewish poet, in the cemetery of Warsaw last year. Second from the Partly because of the enrichment to the Mediterranean gave the of America’s musical legion by Conservatoire rough going. right the well-known Jewish journalist, N. Priluzki. refugees from abroad, this coun- No review of the year in music try enjoyed a musical year of un- would be complete without refer- precedented success. In every field ence to the enormous upswing of T “L’Shonah Tovah Tikasavu” i of music—concerts, radio, records interest in phonograph records. —there was intensified activity. 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