Word: chestra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Debussy: Blessed Damozel (Victoria de los Angeles. Carol Smith; Radcliffe Choral Society; Boston Symphony Or- chestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor). A piece that Debussy submitted, at 24. as part of his duties as a winner of the Prix de Rome. (Officials hesitated to accept it because of its "systematic" vagueness.) It is less vaporous than his more mature works, but its earthy enthusiasm is winning, especially in this crystalline performance...
Died. Wilhelm Furtwangler, 68, famed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Or chestra, one of Europe's leading interpreters of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner, often in hot water because of his equivocal attitude toward the Nazis; of pneumonia; in Baden-Baden, Germany...