Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brahms: Song of Destiny (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Bruno Walter conducting, with the Westminster Choir; Columbia; 4 sides). Brahmsians have always rated the Schicksalslied, based on Hölderlin's Hyperion's Song of Destiny, among Brahms's most stirring scores. Performance good, recording fair...
There was lunch with his wife, Donna Rachele, Son Vittorio, Son Bruno's widow and daughter. Then an hour of chess and strolling through the grounds, not too far from the Nazi Elite Guard or the air-raid shelter hewn from solid rock...
...composition that brought cheers from Carnegie Hall's audience was Bruckner's Te Deum. Like all of his major works it is large, vigorous, austerely religious-a vast tonal shrine. Its melodies are plain-spoken rather than pretty; it has little sensuous appeal. But when Conductor Bruno Walter, the New York Philharmonic and the 176-voice Westminster Choir rose to its climaxes, admirers felt they were hearing music equaled in cumulative power only by the most massive scores in symphonic music...
Originator of this modern medicine show is plump, German-born Dr. Bruno Gebhard, onetime curator of the famed Dresden Museum of Hygiene. He produced his first big U.S. hit at New York's World Fair in 1939-40, where his medicine and health show was among the best attended. At the Fair and on the road, his famed "transparent man" gave millions the willies...
Yank About Town. Dick Bruno (ser geant reporter for Stars and Stripes) came up with Winchelln-from an unidentified North African city. Samples...