Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Waltz (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). In Alexander's Ragtime Band, Hollywood brilliantly reflected the changing moods of a U. S. generation through the songs of its outstanding composer. What that picture did for Irving Berlin, The Great Waltz does, in an utterly different but equally effective way, for Viennese Johann Strauss...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 10 p. m. NBC-Blue) conducts the NBC Symphony Orchestra in his first U. S. performance of Peter Ilyitch Tchaikovsky's Pathétique Symphony. Also Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, Franz Joseph Haydn's D Major (Horn Call) Symphony...
...Friends of Music Orchestra (Sun. 6 p.m., NBC-Blue) opens its first broadcasting season with Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Fritz Stiedry conducting...
Died. Karl Johann Kautsky, 84, famed Austrian Socialist, author (The Guilt of Wilhelm II, Bolshevism in Deadlock), friend & associate of Karl Marx; in Amsterdam...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...