Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

the lady in question was not at home; but he announced his intention of going to the carnival anyway, as he could get in free. ; When I dropped him off, I gave him a quarter, and told him to have a good time for me. Tho he thanked me, I had the feeling he was expecting it, and I then became suspicious that my “leg had been pulled” – however, I did not mind if it had. ; The rest of the trip home is without much to note. It was good to get home & see my family. It seemed as if I had been gone a long time. ; ; August 10 – (Thursday); Last Friday (the 4th) I bought Tchaikovsky’s Fourth. Tho I have heard this over the radio, and long ago had a recording of the Fourth Movement, – it was like new music to me, and filled me with joyous excitement. In fact the power of it went with me on my trip to Emporium. Many moderns call Tchaikovsky a driveling [sic] sentimentalist – but how such an opinion is possible in the face of this powerful masculine music, is beyond me. And the story of his supposed sexual perversion fades for the same reason. How like the crack of dawn the first bars of this symphony with all their raucous brassiness, must have sounded to Tchaikovsky’s contemporaries. They still make you “sit on the edge of your seat”; Evening Holdemiller’s (sic) over for music. Played the T– Fourth, and a couple others. They want to bring some minister to hear the Messiah Records.