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VUllVVi I) J'UI k VO kw.i.k.on, “Sonic correlations in Romantic Literature, Music, and Art/1 which is to be held here from April 28th to May 4th. Roth of these contributions will have a definite bearing on the subject in different ways, and with a reasonable amount of inference on the part of the audience, tlie combination of the two should give a clear understanding of the romantic music of the last half of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth centuries.Dr. Paul Lang, of the Music Department of Columbia, who will lecture on May 1st at 4:40, is unusually well-fitted to discuss his subject, “Grand Opera, The Product of Musical Romanticism in France. Dr. Lang’s field is Musicology, the history, science and criticism of music* This interest has not only led him to do research in his own field; he has done outstanding work along the lines of general history and literature. His particular study, outside of music, has been in French literature of the romantic period.Dr. Lang’s lecture will deal with the new type of opera, which is built for the most part around historical episodes. These operas are characterized by brilliancy, intensity, eagerness for effect, and the effort to achieve vividness, often at the cost of losing the continuity of the whole. The lecture will touch on many of the romantic composers with particular emphasis on Meyerbeer and “The Huguenots,” and will connect the whole movement with its literary background anti the men who were instrumental in forming the philosophy of the period.On Wednesday evening at 8:30, Bruce Simonds of ^ ale will present another phase of musical romanticism in a piano recital at Students . His first number, the Kreitcirm by Schumann, will serve as an exatnpie of German romanticism, as contrasted to the French characteristics discussed by Mr. Lang.Later in the program two of Brahms* ballades will illustrate the tendency of later composer to modify such romanticism and to blend the qualities of Schumann’s school with classical organization.As further contrast to Mr. Lang’s lecture, Mr. Simonds will play, Gas-parti tic la Suit, a gruesome and. ■ ft * _____Ray, it has seemed expedient tc combine both the review of the lecture and of the exhibition.Starting with the premise that perhaps the only true function of photography lies in the documentation of passing events, Mr. Soby gave a clear anti interesting account of the developments in photography since its invention in 1827, and its relation to contemporary painting The early daguerretype lasted only about ten years, and the new wet-plate process led the way to modern photography. The process was used in the first war photographs ever made, by an American named Brady during the Civil War, This work and the more brilliant portrait work of Nadar in France stand as examples of the straight documentary photography of the nineteenth century.An outer influence from contemporary painting soon began tc change the trend in photography The unusual angle from which Degas painted his figures was imitated particularly in Germany, and a new interest in the imitation of picture effects, in composition and in placing grew up in photography.This new influence led both to ar interest in the photography of texture, probably derived from Picas-so's Cubist period, and to the photograph based purely on composition also probably deriving from Picasso A sort of Cubism was made out of people and objects, with a purely compositional interest, analogous perhaps to the paintings of Paul Klee.Man Ray is certainly the niosi important photographer illustrating these new derived interests, lie has been working in Paris since 1924 allied with the Surrealist group, I k employs a variety of techniques ranging from straight photography in some of his portraits to various experimental methods of his own all of these well illustrated in flu Taylor Hall exhibition. Perhaps the most successful photographs in the group arc the realistic portraits oi \rnold Schoenberg, Andre Breton and Brancusi. 1’he Schoenberg is r powerful work, strong in character dramatically placed, and with s (Continued on page 4, col. 2)
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