Word: johann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alley was crowding Communism's anthem, The Internationale. Last week, Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker printed words and music of a catchy new song which "can be sung with great effect by large numbers of people." The composers: Hans Leo Hassler and Johann Sebastian Bach. The lyricist: Balladeer Tom Glazer, onetime baritone of the "Priority Ramblers," the United Federal Workers Union's singing team. Sample...
Austria's four Communist deputies (Ernst Fischer, Johann Koplenig, Franz Honner, Viktor Elser) wrote to Moscow to ask whether something could not be done about the prisoners. Last week Generalissimo Stalin graciously replied: "The Soviet Government has decided to speed up the release and transport of Austrian prisoners of war . . . in such a way as to grant the return of all Austrians before the end of the year. . . ." As an afterthought, he added: "The Austrian Government will be informed of [this]. . . ." Vienna's Communist Volksstimme jubilantly pointed the moral: "Today not only Austrian women but the entire Austrian...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Caponsacchi, by NBC Symphony's First Violist Carleton Cooley, Saint-Saëns' Suite Algérienne, Lalo's Le Roi d'Ys Overture, Johann Strauss's Voices of Spring. Conductor: Frank Black...
...concerts, very likely the best entertainment in Boston these days, are being given every night except Mondays at 8:30. Every night the range of the music is immense; tonight's program, for example, includes things by Handel and Johann Strauss. To rent a chair costs a dime, but if you're healthy or sensible, or both, you'll pay nothing and lie on the grass...
...four voices of the gospelers tell the story in their own words.* That way, by a frequent shift of voices, dramatic interest could be kept up, and the broadest sense of the witness could be conveyed." To connect, extend and impel the tragedy, he added the music of Johann Sebastian Bach...