Word: caroling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other nights last week New Yorkers could hear brilliant, brash Lenny Bernstein's New York City Symphony playing the new music that the older conductors ignore. They crowded into recitals by Singers Marian Anderson, Carol Brice and Giuseppe De Luca; concerts by Pianists John Kirkpatrick and Alexander Brailowsky (who in six programs is playing every solo piano piece Chopin wrote). There were folk songs and ballads, American songs by Tom Scott, South African veld songs by Josef Marais, and jive concerts all over the place...
Argentina resumed relations with Rumania, and almost instantly Carol & Magda, still in Brazil, were reported ready with Argentine visas...
Superficially, they were almost as unlike s two young people could be. Square-aced, serious Ed Willock, 30, a Boston Catholic with a high-school education, supported his wife & four children as a shipping clerk, studied commercial art on the side. Thin, big-eyed Carol Jackson, 35, was born in Oshkosh, Wis., the daughter of a corporation lawyer. She majored in philosophy at Wellesley, traveled around the world, free-lanced, was converted to Catholicism in 1941. But when Ed Willock ind Carol Jackson met last spring, as contributors to the Dominican magazine, the Torch, they found they...
...Carol and his Magda, still exiling in Brazil, made a rare public appearance to goggle at royalty. The high-styled Braganzas, descendants of Brazil's second and last Emperor Dom Pedro II, were staging a circus. Dom João tamed lions, Princess Tereza played an Amazon, a couple of other princesses rode bareback. (The Brazilian Air Minister's nephew tried riding an elephant, but fell off and sprained his elbow.) Dom Pedro Henrique, the Pretender himself, boycotted the show: he was squabbling with the family over money matters...
...them made it ; one who did was a Polish boy prodigy named Moriz Rosenthal. At nine, he walked more than 400 miles from his native Lemberg to Vienna to study piano. At 14, he was made court pianist by Rumania's Prince Carol I. He became Liszt's star pupil, and practiced six hours a day to master the nuances of technique, played command performances all over Europe, exchanged ideas and mutual congratulations with Brahms and Johann Strauss in Vienna cafes...