Malcolm MacDonald

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[Wikipedia] Malcolm John MacDonald was a British politician and diplomat. He was initially a Labour Member of Parliament (MP), but in 1931 followed his father Ramsay MacDonald in breaking with the party and joining the National Government. He was consequently expelled from the Labour Party. He was a government

Quotes by Malcolm MacDonald

“In fact, had there been less discussion of the syntactical construction of Schoenberg’s music, and more of what it says, people might…

Malcolm MacDonald

Death wish

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“Moses sinks down, in defeat: ‘Unimaginable God, inexpressible thought of many meanings! So I am defeated! So everything I thought was madness…

Malcolm MacDonald

Failure

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“No subject was more perfectly suited to the loosened formal framework and swift juxtaposition of disparate elements that marked his ‘totally chromatic’…

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“It was in Barcelona that Schoenberg composed much of Act II of Moses und Aron. He never required quietness to work—indeed, he…

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“This closely parallels aspects of Wassilly Kandinsky’s own contemporary stage piece Der gelbe Klang (written about 1909 but not published until 1912),…

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