Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time being the problems were still in the hands of his advisers. Among them: Secretary of Labor Lew Schwellen-bach, Treasury Secretary John Snyder, Presidential Counsel Clark Clifford. Clifford produced the yardstick for measuring the labor bill: Does it disturb the rights of labor? According to his answer to this question, the President might or might not veto the Taft-Hartley bill...
Reported the Daily Herald critic: "I went skeptical, like most of the audience, I fancy, but after listening to a programme of Bach, Mozart, Debussy, Bloch and Enesco, I was convinced that Adler is a very considerable artist and that in his hands the harmonica can indeed be made to do almost anything-including playing chords and imitating a plucked string...
Charles W. Detjen; Harvard Orchestra; Bach Orchestra and Cantata; Food Relief Committee; Music Club...
...bourgeois Swiss or Americans listen to it, but as a source of escape from squalor and misery into the beauty that only music under such conditions can provide. All over Germany last week hungry, tired, confused little people were listening to the Passions according to Matthew and John of Bach crowding into unheated churches and into dark cathedrals with boarded windows. They began during mid-afternoon (so people could get home before the subways closed at 9:30) and continued as night fell with everything finally pitch dark but the candles for the musicians...
Samuel Barber: Capricorn Concerto (Saidehberg Little Symphony, Daniel Saidenberg conducting; Concert Hall Society, 4 sides). Scored in Bach's concerto grosso style for flute, oboe and trumpet solo plus strings, it smacks more of Stravinsky than Bach, has a sensuous eeriness typical of some of Barber's later works...