Word: fiedler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Birth of Christ, with The Netherlands Chamber Choir) to Children go Where I Send You (ColPix) in which Songstress Nina Simone belts out the story of the "little-bitty baby was born in Bethlehem." In between are gaudy packages by the industry's perennial carolers : Arthur Fiedler, Fred Waring, Mitch Miller, George Melachrino. Among the more notable Christmas tinsel...
...Israel Motion Picture Studios, Ltd. tried to explain. Nobody working on the picture was familiar with Onward, Christian Soldiers, they said, and in casting about for background music for the film's climactic military parade in Tel Aviv, they had hit on an RCA Victor recording by Arthur Fiedler of T. M. Carter's Boston Commandery March. What they did not know was that Composer Carter had used Onward, Christian Soldiers as his motif. The studio quickly pointed out that there are some Christian soldiers in the Israeli army (said one film maker: "We are a democratic country...
...money ($4.98 list price, $1 more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
...Leslie Fiedler's remarks about the Harper's Bazaar "literary academy" (of which Capote was supposedly a prominent member): "Critics have to make a living." The same was true, he added, about "all this Beat Generation talk. I read Kerouac and that other fellow, that poet, and they have nothing in common. Critics just have to have something to say, to write about...
...exhibition, which ran from the seventh through the nineteenth of October, has on its board of directors many distinguished names, including Arthur Fiedler, Cyrus Durgin, and H. H. Scott...