Word: czechoslovakians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dorothy Lamour received a letter from a Czechoslovakian soldier stationed in Great Britain: "I love you very much. I dream about you every night. Please send me a carton of American cigarets...
Antheil's new symphony boomed with martial rhythms and surged with soulful tunes. It sounded successively like Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, a circus parade and a Czechoslovakian weenie-roast. It was vulgar, raucous, unabashedly sentimental, as enjoyable as a baseball game or a day at Coney Island. Critics were unable to down the suspicion that Composer Antheil had paid careful attention to the music and success of Dmitri Shostakovich. In any event, the work proved what some of his friends have long suspected: that the talent Antheil has hid under a bushel of estheticism...
...25th anniversary of CzechoSlovakian independence was celebrated musically last week by two U.S. symphony orchestras. The musical Czech of the hour was the occupied nation's foremost living composer, Bohuslav Martinu, now of Manhattan. In Cleveland (which has one of the largest Czech populations to be found in any U.S. city), Erich Leinsdorf conducted the premiere of Martinu's Second Symphony. In Manhattan, Artur Rodzinski conducted the premiere of a Martinu symphonic poem called Memorial to Lidice. In Philadelphia, Eugene Ormandy was rehearsing a third new Martinu composition, a Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra, with the help...
...much to discuss with President Roosevelt: commitments on CzechoSlovakia's postwar composition and sovereignty; his views on eastern Europe, including his ideas for federations of small states, complete accord with Russia, and the urgency of reuniting Yugoslavia's warring factions. He also will seek to raise the CzechoSlovakian Legation to the embassy status now accorded to six exiled Governments...
...Neither a U.S. nor a British tune, but Czechoslovakian...