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...Canada the newly elected Dominion Parliament met for the first time. Liberal Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King had behind him 182 seats in a House of 245. Opposition Leader Richard Burpee Hanson, elected in caucus last week by the beaten Canadian Conservatives, was eager to jump on the Empire defense band wagon of Winston Churchill. Only criticism hurled at Canada's Prime Minister last week in Ottawa was that the Dominion is not being prepared for war. That was the issue on which the election had been held...
...Howard Hanson: Symphony No. 2 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Victor: 8 sides), and Roy Harris: Symphony No. 3 (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor: 4 sides). First recordings of two contemporary, respectable U. S. symphonies. Composer Hanson's is tuneful with patches of Teutonic rhetoric; Composer Harris's is dry and intricate, its ancestry Russo-Parisian...
Hardboiled, often embroiled Elisha Hanson, general counsel for the American Newspaper Publishers Association, is soft on pigeons. Exhibiting home-bred prize pouters in Philadelphia, he remarked: "There are philanderers and wantons among pigeons, but not many. Generally they are ... just a little more loyal to each other than the human race...
This incident proved nothing positive about War II's air superiority, or even the whereabouts of Willy Messerschmitt. But both those subjects remained key factors in the war, and last week the New York Times's No. 1 war writer, Hanson Weight-man Baldwin, played down a major story by writing quietly...
...course, one expects this in works like the Hanson symphonies (the third will be played in Sanders Theatre this week) and in Hill's Violin Concerto (also on the Sanders Theatre program), for these men have never been identified with the most advanced group of modern composers. But even the composers who adopted the starkest writing of the post-war period seem to have modified their attitude recently...