Word: falla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With No Regret." A quarter of an hour later the official ceremonies marking the first anniversary of F.D.R.'s death began on the broad front porch of the Big House. Dutchess County youngsters perched in a tall tree; servants peeked from the house windows; Falla scuttled out and snuggled at Harry Truman's feet...
While at Juilliard, she won the 1944 Naumburg Foundation competition, was given a free Town Hall debut last March. Conductor Fritz Reiner heard her later, in a private recital, got her to record De Falla's El Amor Brujo and Gustav Mahler's symphonic song, Eines Fahrenden Gesellen. It was actually Reiner who gave Carol her start, but Serge Koussevitzky's enthusiastic ' helping hand last week assured her future...
...league began to strike political as well as artistic snags. Stalin, Hitler and Mussolini had agreed on their hatred of modern music. As World War II approached, many of the league's European members wavered between exile and totalitarianism. Spain's famed Manuel de Falla (The Three-Cornered Hat) signed with Dictator Franco. Parisian Composers Arthur Honegger and Florent Schmitt toured Germany as honored guests of the Third Reich. Italian Modernist G. Francesco Malipiero began writing Fascist anthems for Mussolini. Unable to cope with political wanderings, in 1939 the embarrassed league restricted its composer membership to U.S. citizens...
Action. Having spoken, the President went to Hyde Park, read, played with his Scottie, Falla; hashed things over with Mrs. Roosevelt as they sat on the porch at Hyde Park. Behind the diplomatic scenes wheels ground steadily. At the end of a baking-hot day, after the last stock exchange (San Francisco) had closed, the curtain lifted to disclose the President issuing an order freezing all Japanese assets (probably about...
...Check Please": around Town with the Gid 7:35 Review of the U.T. 7:40 "Concert Master" Handel--Messiah (first half) 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 Hockey team bull-session with Captain Prennie Willets 9:45 "Crimson Conecrt Hall" de Falla--El Amore Brujo Hindemith--Quarter No. 3, Opus 22 10:45 Crimson News and Interview