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...dead face of more than one rival might flood by in Benito Mussolini's remembrance: Giacomo Matteotti, the murdered Socialist who defied castor oil and clubs; Italo Balbo, cut down when he grew too popular in the Fascist State. Then there was the dead face of his son, Bruno, a casualty of the war the father had glorified. Then the dead faces of those hundreds of thousands of men lost with the empire in Africa, the dead and fear-racked faces of millions of civilians fleeing their bombed homes...
Schumann: Frauenliebe und Leben (Lotte Lehmann, soprano, with Bruno Walter at the piano; Columbia; 8 sides). Grade B performance and recording; Helen Traubel's Victor version is still tops...
Poland. Armed bands in eastern and central Poland derailed 17 trains, destroyed or damaged hundreds of railroad cars and 116 locomotives, burned 60 gasoline storage tanks and seven oil wells. Among Nazis recently assassinated were Hugo Dietz, German labor-exchange official, and Bruno Kurtz, head of the Warsaw German Social Assistance Office...
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter conducting, with Kerstin Thorborg, contralto, and Charles Kullman, tenor; Columbia; 14 sides). A reissue of Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
...been something of a musical prodigy ever since, at the age of ten, he conducted the People's Symphony of San Francisco through his own composition, A Legend of the Black Forest. For nine years he was violinist in front rank symphony orchestras conducted by Toscanini, Rodzinski, Bruno Walter and Walter Damrosch-but by contrast he has also played in hotel dance bands and in the pit of burlesque and movie houses. He studied for two years in Paris and Vienna-worked on the scores of several Broadway shows-and for a decade headed the department of theory...