Music About Town
Lack of space has prevented my mentioning before now the interesting work of the young Toronto composer Oskar Morawetz.
Two weeks ago at a Toronto Star Good Music Concert, the distinguished pianist Mary
Syme gave a performance of Morawetz's "Scherzo" for piano. The keen enthusiasm of the layman audience for the work was proof enough that although Morawetz is a modernist, he has something
to say which the listener can comprehend and is not simply given over to the "laboratory" experiments which obsess so many of our young writers.
I am pleasantly surprised to discover the number of performances that Morawetz's works are getting.
His "Carnival Overture," for instance, has been played 25 times since 1946
and many important artists are showing an interest in his writing. Such success
can only be attributed to genuine creative talent.
