Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...comrades call the obscure and mysterious representatives of the Communist International. As "a man from Moscow" he had lived in a world where honor, friendship, even family ties meant nothing. One of the witnesses who denounced him was his sister, sharp-chinned, black-haired ex-German Communist Ruth Fischer, the person who hates him most...
Item: Edwin Fischer, I was very reliably informed, was "made" as a pianist on the money provided for him and his orchestra by his former wife, a Jewess. But with the arrival of the Nazi regime he not only played in Germany, but ousted the Jews from his orchestra before he was even requested to. Fischer is now a Professor at the Conservatory of Lucerne, whose Meisterkurs for piano draws him 500 francs per pupil per year (ten lessons). He gives recitals throughout Switzerland and will appear in London next month...
...them were killed off. Hounded from country to country and plagued by internal divisions, they persisted in Europe, doing their stubborn best to obey God and get along with man. They annoyed, baffled and roused the suspicions of their fellow Christians. Wrote Catholic Author Christoph Andreas Fischer...
...flow is expected to increase. Briggs and Briggs has on hand a few copies of some Cetra (Italian) releases and is daily expecting a shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and chorus...
...Fischer is not the only pianist who is content to stay where he is. Alfred Cortot, well over seventy and in semi-retirement, gave a recital of the twenty-four precludes and twenty-four etudes of Chopin. During the Rencontres Internationales at Geneva in September, at which Europe's leading intellectuals met to try to bring some unity to the post-war's ideological tangle, Wilhelm Bachaus appeared to give a recital of Beethoven sonatas and another of piano quintets with the redoubtable French Lowenguth quartet...