[*] “His scholarship is good and his point of view established favorably for perspective. He writes frankly of old and new masters, and his comments are stimulating to the mind of the reader.” W. J. Henderson.
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“Mr. Newman takes his work with vast seriousness and digs very deep. The subjects warrant such treatment, but as a result the reader must look for matter rather than manner.”
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“Mr. Newman also ventures to fly in the face of public opinion with a few pages of very depreciative remarks on Gounod’s ‘Faust.’ Here he is decidedly in error. In the other essays of this volume we find our author much more sane and satisfactory, and less self-contradictory.”
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Newman, Ernest. Wagner. (Music of the masters ser.) $1. Brentano’s.
The average lover of music will find Wagner made comprehensible in Mr. Newman’s monograph; “not the whole Wagner,” but the “essential Wagner” as a musician and a dramatist is the author’s province. Following a chapter on Wagner’s development, each of his operas is studied in turn, and the really essential motives are given. A chronological table and bibliography are included.
“A refreshing independence of judgment.”
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