Evening star., 1927-09-04
EUROPE ACCLA|MS
NOVELTY IN MUSIC
Tendencies Away From Ira
dition, if Giving New Thought,
Is Encouraged.
BY MAMMALIAN HARDEN.

By Radio to The Star.
BERLIN, September 3.-At the
Frankfort International Music Exhibi-
tion, which aimed at representing the
rank and Importance of music in the
life Of peoples, even of Asia and Africa.
there was much discussion of the new,
or objective, music and its new spirit
In music more than in any other
art the new Is most eagerly encour-
aged. Handel's operas, which for
nearly 200 years were considered I'M
possible to perform, now have been
revived. When Beethoven published
his violin concerto-now one OF the
most celebrated works in the world
his friends feared he was going in
sane. The performance of his Ninth
almost to certainty.
Wagner Met Prejudices.
Everybody remembers how long
spiritual deafness prevented appre,
citation of Wagner's "Lohengrin, y
''Tannhauser" and "Trictam and
Isolde" and with what difficulty
Brahms, Hugo Wolf, Mailer, Richard
Strauss and Roger overcame the
strongest of prejudices.
Because new technique and some
times new ideas have increased the
difficulties of success with the pub
lie, erroneous opinion might arise
that that which is new or seems new,
and therefore is not understood nor
accepted, must be particularly val
liable and guarantee future success.
One might as well think every
paranoac capable of writing Mau.
PEASANTS novels, or every epileptic
~ n h1n IF tV,or f1i
tions.
Study of all arts shows that a pro.
duction receives rank and value from
the artistic mind, not from representa-
ton changes. If new conception
glows in this mind, individual express
sion will be created from the depths
of personal enthusiasm.
Mozart Touched Spot.
The attempt of the talented sym.
phony composer, Henry Gilbert, to
produce music Independent of Euro
pean tradition, and influenced alone
by American temperament, national
life and history, shows a lack of In
geniousness. His aspirations did not
prevent one of his works, played at
Frankfort, from having an instru-
mentally sonorous, but absolutely no
foreign orchestral effect.
Mozart's simple genius, although
impregnated with Italian tradition
found, nevertheless, the right tone of
the German peoples hearts and tenn.
peraments when he composed the
Spanish tragedy, 'Don JUAN" or the
French comedy, Figaro"
The desire for something new, for
diversion from traditional ideas and
forms. Is seen distinctly in the works
of "the a-tonics'' and all their branch
es, which seek to produce something
extraordinary and unprecedented in
sound melody and rhythm.
Tendency Taken Seriously.
Since their leader, the 53-year-old
Arnold Schoenberg, succeeded in pro
ducing t. ~mendous applause with his
songs ar chamber music, and since
his pupil Al,oan Berg. was successful
with the extraordinarily unconvention
al opera, "Wossek," even the Oldest
critics are beginning to take the new
tendency seriously. "a
Stravinsky and, later, Prokoviev
Milhaud and Pouleno, Schoenberg
Hindemith. Krenek, Berg, Honneger
Hauer, Joch and also the Hungarians
Bartok and Harsanyi, are noteworthy
artists. And Maurice Ravel OF
France will not be deprived of his
laurels as a lyrical composer because
of his contempt for Beethoven.
And while on the fallow ground OF
dramatic music, there is everywhere
eagerness to seize something new.
Verdi, who once was considered bad
taste, born under Napoleon's sinking
star, is now triumphant on all stages
of both hemispheres and his immortal
genius is only receiving now from
old and young fitting tribute and ad
miration.