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Music
Mendel, Arthur | December 31, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the startling music on the program of the League of Composers' first concert. The "Sacre" was the first adequate expression of the extraordinary revolt, a violent reaction against everything that bad immediately preceded it. The nineteenth century, in seeking the sublime, had finished by bordering on the ridiculous; perhaps the twentieth by seeking the ridiculous could achieve the sublime. The nineteenth century had carried technical refinement and subtlety to immense heights, had become enormously civilized. The twentieth would try barbarism.

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MUSIC -- Performance; CONCERTS; MUSICIANS; COMPOSERS; PERFORMING arts; MUSIC
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