Word: antone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Anton Bruckner...
With extreme pleasure I was reading your article concerning Anton Bruckner (March 27). On the other side, Bruckner is considered as Beethoven's only equal in the symphonic field. Born in Vienna and a musician myself (in civilian life, of course), I fought for Anton Bruckner all my life and I was surprised to find, when I came to this country, that almost nobody had ever heard of him. In Austria and Germany Bruckner's name appeared on concert programs as often as Beethoven's and is familiar to everyone who appreciates good music. Bruno Walter made...
Gone but not forgotten: Lt. Charlie, of course, and gifts of advice ... J. Anton and pointed cynicism ... weeks free from 1600 meetings ... Hanson's iteration and re-iteration ... snow ... 6c airmail stamps ... meat on Wednesday ... student club singsongs ... Herilhy's "fawn the battalion" ... Kolker and "my name is Marvin J." ... And the case of champagne to: Lt. Beckham, attaining the senile age of 24 come 18 April ... Student Club Saturday night struggles ... Webb, Van Housen, Hope, Bergen, et al, for getting things done ... Captain MacIntosh for our 13-day leave ... and those one hundred iron men on their...
...Anton Bruckner was born in the Austrian Tyrol in 1824, three years before the death of Beethoven. A great, hulking, oafish man with a huge beaked nose and the manners of a country bumpkin, he wandered about the streets of 19th-Century Vienna pathetically anxious to find anybody who liked his long, earnest, rather complicated symphonies. Practically nobody did. His contemporary, Johannes Brahms, hooted: "Bruckner's works immortal? It makes me laugh." Richard Wagner, whom Bruckner admired tremendously, considered him a bonehead and avoided his company. Few of his important works were published until the last years...
...Great Sin." Part of Anton Bruckner's trouble was unquestionably his personality. He was living proof that brains and great creative musicianship do not necessarily occupy the same skull. A simple-minded peasant who spent his early life as a schoolteacher (at a salary of 80? a month) and church organist, he never got the hayseeds out of his close-cropped hair. His courtesy was a little like that of an uneasy headwaiter. He referred to people he met as "Your Grace," addressed Brahms as "Mr. President." He was always imagining himself in love with some chambermaid or adolescent...