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Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
...happy day was November 3, 1936 for a ruddy, 71-year-old Manchester, N. H. retired shoe manufacturer named Arthur Byron Jenks. That day Republican Jenks. running for his first political office, thought that he had beaten Democrat Alphonse Roy for Congress in New Hampshire's ist District by 550 votes. Less happy were many succeeding days as the Jenks-Roy contest shuttled back and forth in a tantalizing series of recounts (TIME, Dec. 7. 1936. et seq.). One count came out 51,679-to-51,679, first tie in a Congressional race in no years. Another gave Contestee...
...final Ja, das ist ein Schnitzelbank number, with the audience joining in and yelling its head off over: Schnitzelbanko, Monster Franco, Fascist Yoke, Spanish Folk, Serene Impunity, Chinese Unity...
...program will consist of: Songs Gesegnet sei Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen Er ist's Das verlassene Magdlein Der Freund Hugo Wolf Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 Hindemith Songs with Viola Gestillte Sehnsucht Geistliches Wiegenlied Brahms La Cloche Felee Serenade Dansons la Gigue! Loeffler
...William Richard Morris, ist Baron of Nuffield, who last year brought tears of joy to the eyes of Oxonians with a gift of $10,000,000 for a medical centre and $500,000 for the Bodleian Library, had previously given $700,000 for an infirmary. Last week he tossed Oxford University another $6,500,000. He gave $1,000,000 for more medical research, $500,000 to buy a site for a new school of physical chemistry, $5,000,000 for a new college for social studies. Thereupon, the onetime bicycle mechanic, now the Henry Ford of Great Britain...