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PARTISAN REVIEW
Seghers; Alfred Polgar; Alfred Doblin,
author of
Alexanderplatz,
now in
Hollywood;
Erich Maria Remarque,
also in Hollywood;
Franz Werfel;
Adolf Hofmeider.
MUSICIANS
Of the modern group known as
The Six, three-Francis Poulenc,
Georges Auric,
and
Germaine Tailleferre-are
in unoccupied France;
Arthur Honegger,
a Swiss citizen, is in Switzerland;
Darius Milhaud
is in
the United States. (No. 6,
Louis Durey,
is no longer active musically.)
Henri Rabaud,
another French composer, is in Mexico City.
George$
Enesco
from last reports was in his native Roumania.
Ernst von Dohnanyi
is still director of the Musical Academy in Budapest;
Zoltan Kodaly
is
also still in Hungary.
Walter Gieseking
was in Holland in November.
Aside from these and a few others
(Richard Strauss
lives at peace with
the authorities in Munich; in Finland
Sibelius
still works on his eighth
and ninth symphonies), there are few of the great musicians still in
Europe. They illustrate perhaps best the dimension of the cultural shift
to the new world. Works once published in Vienna, Berlin, Leipzig, Mainz,
Prague, Paris, London are more and more now coming out in New York.
During the past year there has been an increase of some 25 percent in
music published .in this country.
Manuel de Falla
is in South America.
Julius Korngold,
the Viennese critic, is in America.
Oskar Straus
recently
arrived here.
Franz Lehar
is still in Vienna, but preparing to come.
Ben·
jamin Britten,
the English composer, is in America, working on an opera
with an American theme, for which Auden is writing the hook.
Paul
Hindemith
teaches at the Yale University School of Music.
Mario Castel–
nuovo-Tedesco
is at Hollywood;
Hanns Eisler
is also there, writing ihe
music for John Steinbeck's new film about Mexico. The Fontainebleau
Music School is now an American hospital; its director,
Robert Casadesw,
teaches at Princeton. The head of the piano department,
lsidor Philipp,
is in Bordeaux on his way here; his assistant,
Nadia Boulanger,
is teaching
in New England.
Darius Milhaud,
whose latest opera,
Medee,
had its pre·
miere in Paris in June, has since written a dirge for defeated Netherlands,
the
Cortege Funebre.
Now in this country, he divides his time between
conducting the Boston symphony, giving piano recitals, and teaching at
Mills College, in California.
Julien Duvivier,
who directed
Un Camet de Bal,
and
Rene Clair
are
in Hollywood.
Jean Renoir,
director of
The Lower Depths,
recently ar·
rived in this country.
Ruby Grierson,
little known in this country but
admired in England as a pioneer in documentary film work, went down
with the
City of Benares.
...
Mies van der Rohe,
the Dutch architect, is
in
Chicago.
Antonin Heythun,
the Czech architect, who had come here to
build the World's Fair exhibit, never went back. The German architect,
Walter Gropius,
has been teaching at Harvard for some years.
(Compiled by William Petersen)