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...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Wagner's Siegfried's Rhine Journey, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Emperor Concerto. Soloist: Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
Past Master. In Berlin, German postal officials got a letter from New Orleans addressed "His Imperial Majesty, Emperor William II, Under Linden, 36, Berlin, W 8, Germany...
...sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which by its slower pace and ponderous force gave the piece a grandeur it could never achieve under the bombastic glitter of a Serkin or a Schuabel. Fischer's technique was at times appalling and his mistakes glaring, but the immense force strength and delicacy such...
...Emperor had chosen "Meiji setsu" -birthday of the Emperor Meiji, who made Japan a modern power and Shinto a war-inspiring state religion-to proclaim democracy. Tokyo's famous Meiji shrine staged a three-day festival that included a tea ceremony and geisha dances, but at the same time the government began distribution of new "democratic" photographs of the Emperor, in civilian instead of military dress. Nagasaki residents held a snake dance and a poetry contest on the subject: "Reconstruction from the Atomic Bomb...
...little Americans in the U.S. now cared about the progress of their defeated enemy toward this goal was demonstrated by a Constitution Day incident: NBC Correspondent George Thomas Folster had arranged a tradition-shattering exclusive "live" broadcast of the Emperor's message, urged it on his New York office. Cabled back NBC: "Can't use Hirohito...