Word: heards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there was still an elder sister ahead of Margaret. -Five years later her Uncle David became King Edward VIII. Then, suddenly his reign was over, and he went off to marry Wallis Warfield. "Are they going to cut off his head?" Margaret asked her big sister expectantly when she heard the news. When she finally understood that her own father was to be the monarch, her interest gave way to bored impatience. "Oh, bother," said Great Britain's princess, "and I've only just learned to spell York...
...opening worship service they heard Dr. Warner Cole of Detroit deliver the annual sermon on "Conquest Through Conflict," in which he named three "foes, strong, deeply entrenched, that array themselves against the church of the 20th Century." First, he cited "the enemy of humanistic materialism"; second, the "dread menace of Communism"; third, "the aggressive advance of the Roman Catholic ecclesiastical empire," which is "seeking not only spiritual and religious domination but political power...
...phone rang. His faintly accented "Hello" was answered by the mellow tenor tone of the Metropolitan Opera's Edward Johnson. Could Mr. Bing attend a performance as his guest? Rudi Bing said he would be delighted. Last week, operalovers the world over learned that Rudi had seen and heard more than Mozart's Marriage of Figaro at the Met. He had also seen and heard the beginnings of the hiring of Vienna-born Rudolf Bing by the Met as its new general manager...
...heed to the old world than to the new: more Titians than Trumbulls hang in its marbled halls. Musically, almost the reverse has been true since a tall, dark-haired young (34) conductor named Richard Bales took over the free gallery concerts six years ago. Bach and Beethoven are heard -but so are dozens of aspiring U.S. composers who seldom, if ever, get a hearing in Constitution or Carnegie halls...
From the time he heard his first concert in Philadelphia at the age of twelve, Virginian Dick Bales knew he wanted to be a conductor. After high school he went to Rochester's Eastman School of Music. In 1940, after he had toured with a WPA orchestra and studied on a Juilliard fellowship, Serge Koussevitzky picked him as one of five outstanding young U.S. conductors, packed him off to the new Berkshire Music Center for private instruction...