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...tenth month-came the 34th anniversary of the Republic. In Shanghai, the populace went wild with joy released, and the city fathers spent $5,000,000 (about $7,000 U.S.) on street decorations. In Chungking, cheering crowds sang the unifying words of the new China's national anthem. For the first time in a decade they were not idle words. Peace had brought back a vision: a reunited China...
Died. Leo Borchard, 53, Russian-born conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, who fell from Nazi favor in 1937 when he refused to conduct the Nazi anthem, Horst Wessel, then was high in Allied favor after the fall of Berlin; shot by U.S. sentries when the British staff car in which he was riding failed to stop at their command, 35 minutes past curfew; in Berlin...
...King's right, Secretary Byrnes at the left. At leave-taking the band played again. Said Harry Truman to the King: "Your Majesty, I want to get that man to teach our bands how to play The Star-Spangled Banner." (European bands usually play the U.S. national anthem slower and with more feeling than U.S. bands...
Canadian soldiers on leave joined the Dutch in singing Wilhelmus, the national anthem which the Germans banned in 1940, then listened to Beethoven, Debussy and Tschaikovsky conducted by 44-year-old stocky, handsome Alexander Van Beinum, formerly an assistant conductor...
Last week Director Sapiro was lining up bandsmen for the biggest assignment of his career: the United Nations Conference. In his cubbyhole office (behind the City Hall elevator shaft) Phil Sapiro had carefully scored the anthems of each & every United Nation. The new Russian anthem he transcribed from a piano and vocal arrangement. "But I'll check with the delegations themselves before we play a note," he said. "You know, where you really run into trouble is with those Latin American countries. They keep changing anthems every time there is a revolution -but the band will be ready...