Word: isaac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From his pulpit Father used to deplore "the duckwaddle or bandmaster's style of carrying the processional cross." And when Isaac Wrubel, who owned a clothing store, asked him to take his five sons into the choir and teach them a little religion -any religion-on the side, Father said he'd teach them Isaac's Jewish religion. "The Old Testament is good enough for me," he said...
...Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C (Isaac Stern, violinist, with string orchestra; Columbia, 6 sides). One of the most delightful, if not the most profound, of all fiddle concertos; cleanly, clearly and delightfully played. Recording: good. Symphony No. 88 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Also one of Haydn's most charming, but in the slow movement Conductor Ormandy drags where he should be warm and graceful. Recording: good...
...Wife of Abraham, who at 90 gave birth to Isaac (Genesis...
Spain's Jewry was stunned. Its most eminent member, the great theologian Isaac Abrabanel, who had risen to be financial adviser to the Crown, pleaded with Ferdinand to rescind the edict of expulsion. According to Abrabanel's own account of the historic scene, he "wearied himself to distraction in imploring compassion." He cried: "Regard us, Ferdinand, use not thy servants so cruelly." But the King remained "more fierce than Esau." Only when Abrabanel offered him 30,000 ducats did he seem to weaken...
Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Vladimir Horowitz and Alexander Brailowsky, Violinists Jascha Heifetz, Nathan Milstein and Isaac Stern, among others, fired off statements aimed at Chicago, warning that they would refuse to appear with the orchestra if Furtwangler conducted. Rubinstein summed it up: "Had Furtwangler been firm in his democratic convictions he would have left Germany . . . Mr. Furtwangler chose to stay and chose to perform, believing he would be on the side of the victors . . . Now he wants to earn American dollars and American prestige. He does not merit either...