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...negotiations, has long since become inured to being addressed by his wife's name. Says he: "Victoria sings, but later she is the classic Spanish woman in her home. In private life, she is my wife, not I the consort of Victoria de los Angeles." ¶Belgrade-born Dragan Debeljevic, 39, abandoned plans for a career as an art and musical historian to guide the career of his wife, Swiss-born Soprano Lisa Delia Casa. While he was studying at the University of Zurich he heard Delia Casa sing, married her not long after. By his testimony, his wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: In Sickness & in Wealth | 8/1/1960 | See Source »

...determination, for its characterization of our allies, the Chinese people, and for the intelligence and sensitivity of its plot and dialogue. A new China, a bold, indomitable China, is rising out of the blood and sweat of battle. The new China is intent on wiping ignorance from its shores. "Dragan Seed" portrays the beginnings of the movement in a sympathetic, inspiring...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Dragon Seed" | 9/1/1944 | See Source »

Harlem's hotspots last week had 45 knowing visitors. The 45 were delegates to the American Musicological Society's first international congress, climaxing a strenuous six-day program in Manhattan. Such eminent musicologists as Yugoslavia's Dragan Plamenac, Denmark's Knud Jeppesen, Venezuela's Juan Lecuna, watched the Big Apple, the Lindy Hop, the Shag, drank what there was to drink. At the Savoy Ballroom, Bandmaster Erskine Hawkins swung Bach, Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C Minor in their honor. The bolder musicologists ventured gingerly out on the floor, soon got limber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Babylon to Harlem | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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