Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...applauding. One was the singing of the great Italian bass, Ezio Pinza; as Mephistopheles and as Don Giovanni, he proved again that he is the Metropolitan's brightest star. Another was the expert conducting of Hungarian-born George Szell, who, since the departure of Sir Thomas Beecham and Bruno Walter, is the Met's finest maestro. During the opening week six young U.S. singers made their first Metropolitan appearances. Of them, the likeliest future headliners seemed...
...Angelina Bruno's marriage was delayed because her birth certificate listed her as a male...
...Bruno, the saintly Anglo-Italian mystic, was making a final effort to tear the dying Eustace from a "sepulcher . . . built of . . . sloths and sensualities...
...authoritarian Buenos Aires last week one Jordan Bruno Genta, slim, bespectacled director of the new Teachers' School, addressed 25,000 teachers who had been required to attend on threat of dismissal. They listened glumly as he cried: "The pernicious influence of John Dewey . . . must be eradicated from Argentina's schools. . . . The progressive school must be replaced by the traditional school...
...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 it his foremost task to bring Bruckner to the understanding of the American audience and I am positive Bruckner's symphonies will finally conquer their right place in the hearts of the American public...