Posted on April 4, 2019 by joshmitteldorf
Eugene Bozza, born this day in 1905, was a man out of tune with his time, absorbed in the aesthetics of music, composing music that is pleasing and interesting to the ear while the world around him was mired in despair, his homeland was occupied by Nazis, and people everywhere were wailing in pain and loss from the Second World War. None of this is in Bozza's music, nor is there any concession to the intellectualization and abstraction of music that reached its nadir of dominance over musical criticism during Bozza's most productive years.
