Word: brandenburgs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Judge of His Peers. No man had a better training for sitting in judgement on Germany's ruling class than Gerd von Rundstedt. The Rundstedts had been lords in the Altmark of Brandenburg since at least 1123. Rundstedt's father was a Prussian major general, his grandfather a major, his great-grandfather a lieutenant colonel...
Efficacy. In Sacramento. George Brandenburg sued the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. for personal injury, got down on his knees in the courtroom and prayed while the jury deliberated, won a $5,000 judgment...
...Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Busch Chamber Players; Columbia; 2 volumes, 27 sides). A reissue of a definitive and historic Bach recording. Trumpeter George Eskdale plays some of the most remarkable coloratura ever achieved on a brass instrument...
...particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted...
...Hall heard one of the most varied and successful programs of the year, which included everything from Bach to Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Borodin. If the before mentioned concert proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were heard...