Word: heaven
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Those who feared that the maestro's great days were over were soon undeceived. In August he set musical Salzburg agog with a heaven-storming performance of Beethoven's Fidelio, a glorious Falstaff, an incomparable Die Meister singer (TIME, Aug. 24). Last December he went to Tel Aviv and, with all his oldtime brilliance, led the new Palestine Symphony through its first performance (TIME, Jan. 4). All of this encouraged U. S. music lovers to hope that the maestro was not lost to them forever...
...Square at noon, looking very healthy and contented after his first skiing of the year. Snow falls like the very manna from Heaven these days, and the skiers spend their time listening for the weather reports over the radio, all waxed up and no place to go. Another season like this, they tell me, and they will cover Mt. Washington with borax and let the sports try the substitute a la Saks-Fifth Avenue. On to lunch at Eliot with G.'s tutor who is in the government department and now looks upon Roosevelt as the very plague. Much talk...
...abandoned after bodyguards of the Premier-Designate had been obliged to fight off last week an especially resolute group of would-be assassins, assumed by the panicky populace to be "regular Army assassins." Only hasty decision at midnight by the Emperor's advisers to have the Son-of-Heaven ask a onetime War Minister and stanch Army man, General Senjuro Hayashi, to take over the job of Cabinetmaking somewhat slackened tension, by no means ended the crisis...
...sudden announcement last week that her Mark Antony is the 25-year-old boss of the Patoot's family paper Popolo d'ltalia, none other than Vito Mussolini who was left behind when his father, Benito's only and beloved Brother Arnaldo went to Heaven. . . . The adolescent ace of the Blackface War, Paleface Bruno Mussolini, youngest Italian bombster, was only 17 when Pappa made war, is now going to fly by hops to California, then try to make it from San Francisco to Rome, nonstop. With him, just in case, will ride Major Attilio Biseo, personal pilot...
...Always an adroit orchestrator (he scored George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue}, Composer Grofe had come far from the time when he used to add melodic shimmer to such Whiteman numbers as the Song of India and Chansonette. Best non-Grofean work was a deeply-felt Negro Heaven of Otto Cesana. The whole concert pleased even pontifical old William James Henderson of the New York Sun, who unbent to write: "Mr. Grofe presents 'paper' music; his orchestra does not consist of swing men, and never is there any attempt to 'frisk their whiskers.' Indeed...