Bouncing Into Fortune’s Lap And Out Again [Dukelsky] 3/14/29

Composers of modern music are a wandering race. Often they live and work outside their own country. Ernest Bloch embraced American faith; Varese found congenial surroundings in New York City; while George Antheil went to France “pour epater les bourgeois.” Stravinsky has not seen Russia since the days of “Petrushka.” Prokoffiev revisited the U.S.S.R. after his fame was firmly established in foreign lands. The youngest side of Russia is Vladimir Dukelsky, Russian who writes Russian music outrightful heir to Stravinsky and Prokoffiev in spirit and manner but as independent of either as any college boy blossoming forth into a grand career along the lines in which his parents, now growing respectable, had been prominent and successful. This week his Symphony in F will be heard at the Symphony Concerts.