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...Editor Josten is now in his second exile from his homeland. He was writing for Eduard Benes' daily Lidove Noviny when the Nazis marched into Prague, escaped to France, where he joined a Czech legion fighting the Germans; he got to England on a British destroyer a month after Dunkirk. In London he edited a small Free Czech Army daily, made BBC broadcasts, married a British girl, served in the Allied invasion of France and became a lieutenant in SHAEF's psychological warfare branch. At war's end, his good friend, the late Jan Masaryk, made...
Vienna's Eduard Hanslick was the most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through...
...excuses. Egyptian Fahmy Attallah was put off by 6-in. practice shells from an English shore battery which kept plopping into the water ahead of him. Panagiotis Kamberos of Greece was disqualified when his trainers yanked him into the boat out of the jaws of a shark. "Papa" Eduard Mussche, 63, the oldest competitor, got lost in the Channel, had a mackerel tickle his stomach, finally sighted a boat and climbed...
...Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. 2. Lily Pons and Ferruccio Tagliavini. 3. Eduard Werner and the Detroit Scandinavian Orchestra. 4. Rudolf Bing and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. 5. Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra...
...gave them Scandinavian style. During intermissions the musicians would step down from the stage, mingle with the guests. After the concert, there would be coffee, cakes, sometimes a dance. Over the years the orchestra grew in size from 36 to 75; when they got a regular conductor, Vienna-born Eduard Werner, they began to grow in proficiency. In recent years their weekly Sunday-night concerts in a 1,600-seat hall in Detroit's Masonic Temple have been attended by enough people to pay costs and put $5,000 in the treasury...