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Word: bei (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last two, "Ach bleib bei uns" and "Kommst du nun," are fiendishly hard. But Mrs. Pardue tossed them off as though they were elementary exercises...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Two Women Play Bach | 8/2/1962 | See Source »

Madame Schwarzkopf, looking radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault...

Author: By Kenneth A. Bleeth, | Title: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf | 4/20/1962 | See Source »

...Bei mir bist du schön means that you're grand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Bei Mir Worst Du Poor | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...into the pockets of Secunda and Jacobs. Secunda's mother was so certain that God was thus punishing her for her sins that she went to a synagogue and remained there for an entire day, fasting and praying for forgiveness. But in the 24 years that followed, Bei Mir Bist Du Schön went on relentlessly inflating the fortunes of others. People have bought 250,000 copies of Bei Mir sheet music and 2,500,000 Bei Mir records-for a total gross...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Bei Mir Worst Du Poor | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

...living) could renew it. Secunda, 66, now writes liturgical music, and in summer is music director of a resort hotel in the Catskills. Jacobs runs a Yiddish vaudeville house in Miami Beach. Secunda has signed a new contract with Harms, Inc., music publishers, and the partners are assured that Bei Mir Bist Du Schön is still worth at least $5,000 yearly. They shrug off the $350,000 they might have had. Says Secunda: "Mother was convinced that the big day would come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tin Pan Alley: Bei Mir Worst Du Poor | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

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