Ernest Bloch

The intellectual and cultural atmosphere was further enhanced by the presence of Hendrik Van Loon, Lewis Mumford, and Ernest Bloch, who were invited by Naumburg to work with the students.

Margaret Naumburg. 2009

The 20th-century composer Ernest Bloch, he marked the second movement of his first piano quintet andante mistico.

Italian: The Language That Sings 2007

Now, sticking with Ernest Bloch for a moment, if we take the opening of his second sonata for violin and piano, it's also called the Poeme Mystique.

The Importance of the Bow 2006

Ernest Bloch, the primeval forest with its thick spawning life, its ferocious beasts, its brutish phallic-worshiping humanity, is still here.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Ernest Bloch was born in Geneva, Switzerland, July 24th, 1880.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

But in the music of no composer is it as plainly evident as it is in that of Ernest Bloch.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

Geneva, "la ville Protestante," that saw unclose the art of Ernest Bloch, was, after all, not much more eager to welcome a Jewish renaissance than was the

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

But one might suppose that the various organizations allegedly "friendly" to music, eager for the cause of the "new" and the "modern," would see to it that the musician whom such an authority as Ernest Bloch has declared to be the single composer in America who displays positive signs of genius, was given his opportunity.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

But there is music of Ernest Bloch that is a large, a poignant, an authentic expression of what is racial in the Jew.

Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

To open, Salerno-Sonnenberg led her charges through a big-boned, eloquent account of Ernest Bloch's Concerto Grosso for String Orchestra With Piano.

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