Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Europe's governments had repealed anti-Jewish legislation. Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania had been forced to it by armistice terms. Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl sweepingly promised Jews full civil rights. But all over Europe, Jews who returned to their old homes were received as unwelcome strangers. The Nazi-seized property they claimed had frequently been taken over by other war victims. There was no shelter, no clothing, no food, and little sympathy to spare...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 8 sides; Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) in F (New York City Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Pittsburgh's Reiner is generally content to play Beethoven the way Beethoven wrote it; Stokowski, who still feels a call to improve on the composer, lushes up the Pastoral. Orchestral performance of both: good...
Bound up with the election was the fate of Belgium's exiled King Leopold III. All parties wanted the monarchy, but only the Catholics, fervently keynoting the Belgian anthem's refrain, "Le Roi, la loi, la liberté" had campaigned to have Leopold back. Brussels thought the reluctant left-wing parties would agree to recall him-to abdicate in favor of his 15-year-old heir, Prince Baudouin...
...political convictions. They are voting their . . . reactions to immediate circumstances." Well-fed Belgians seemed to be the first to bear out this analysis. They added a piquant touch of their own: a predominantly leftist Government had led the return to prosperity, which resulted in gains for the friends of Leopold...
Like most good conductors, Leopold Stokowski has a temper. Once he held up a Montevideo concert for half an hour while ushers gathered up programs which said his real name was Stokes.* Once the silver-haired maestro walked out on the Mexico Symphony Orchestra after a fuss-&-feathers over an incomplete orchestration. Last week in Cuba, Stokie was in another skirmish with Latin Americans...