Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battered streets, music lovers stopped to wring the hand of 71-year-old Conductor Bruno Walter. He had come back to preside over a ceremony as symbolic as his own return: the restoration to the Vienna State Opera of a Rodin bust of another Viennese hero-Gustav Mahler...
Every Child Knows. At last, the Russian representative lays aside his paper with respectful attention: curly-headed Communist Bruno Baum takes the floor. He is the only one of the gathering who looks well-fed; his jowls are heavy and his stomach folds over his belt. Briskly, he assails the Western powers for "looting" Berlin and denounces-with no supporting proof-removal of its factories to the Western zones. All but the Communists guffaw. But Bruno perorates bravely: "We must defend the workers of Berlin whose factories and jobs are being stolen from them." In the bored silence that follows...
...Concertgebouw learned many a score under the baton of the composer himself-Strauss, Mahler, Hindemith-and many more under guest experts like Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet (TIME, Feb. 2), Bruno Walter. For 45 of its 60 years it felt the sure hand of the same good conductor, Willem Mengelberg. Among his innovations were the great annual Easter performances of Bach's St. Matthew Passion and foreign tours for which the Concertgebouw is famed...
Says Francescatti, with a crinkly grin: "With Ormandy, whom I play with most, I make fun. With Bruno Walter, no; with him it is just the angelic smile." Francescatti likes to take concerts easy-but he keeps his playing clean, forthright and brilliant. A small, excitable Frenchman of 42, Francescatti has been fiddling in the U.S. ten years, and is now regarded as one of the half-dozen first-raters in this country. In his native Marseilles he learned most of his art from his mother and father, both able violinists, and could play classical concertos before he learned...
...days later, Bruno Walter and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony gave Symphonia Serena its New York premiere. At week's end, Composer Hindemith, a short and shy man who now heads the music department at Yale, capped it all by conducting his own Hérodiade at a New Friends of Music performance at Manhattan's Town Hall...