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...Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
...time the London String Quartet toured the western world, played top-notch Beethoven to audiences sophisticated and simple. Eventually the players found that they could not make a living from $750 gross per occasional performance, split four ways...
...Beethoven: Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (Jose Iturbi, pianist and conductor, with the Rochester Philharmonic; Victor; nine sides). In one of the great concertos, Iturbi again performs his pet virtuoso stunt; mechanically better than the earlier Victor recording by Beethoven Specialist Artur Schnabel...
...week had nothing remotely reminiscent of the rumble of a Moro tom-tom. Manilans have been elegantly enjoying their concerts and opera for nearly 300 years, and were ready 15 years ago for the organization of a full-out orchestra. With precision and grace last week it swung through Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Strauss's Till Eulenspiegel, Glazounov's Une Féte slave. Jovita Fuentes, Filipino soprano who has sung Madam Butterfly from China to Nazi Germany, sang a set of Gustav Mahler's most ivory-turreted Lieder...
...starting salary of a government employe). Key men like four-feet-six Concertmaster Ernesto Vallejo have studied in Europe or the U.S. But most of the players, including a bassoonist who learned his instrument in a few days before his first concert, are naturally gifted natives who take to Beethoven like an Igorot to confirmation.* Conductor Zipper, also an Austrian, who fled to the Philippines from a Nazi concentration camp in 1939, arrived in Manila just in time to take up where Conductor Lippay left...