Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bizet: Music from Carmen (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 8 sides...
...decided whether he wants to be a composer or a conductor, a jazzman or a classicist. Last week he led the municipally owned New York City Symphony for the first time, after only one week of rehearsals. He had replaced more than half of the musicians inherited from Conductor Leopold Stokowski. Now there was only one slightly bald head in the whole orchestra. There were twelve ex-servicemen. The orchestra thumped its way through Brahms's Second Symphony, which Brahms wrote at 44. But critics liked best young Conductor Bernstein's version of Shostakovich's First Symphony...
...Switzerland, Belgium's Leopold bowed to temporary exile, but by no means to permanent renunciation of his throne...
Died. Princess Stephanie Clotilde Louise Hermine Marie Charlotte of Belgium, 81, elder daughter of the late King Leopold II, widow of Austrian Crown Prince Rudolf, who shot his mistress (Baroness Maria Vetsera), then himself, in the famed Mayerling scandal of 1889; in Hungary (according to the Brussels radio). The Princess married Hungarian Count Lonyay...
Caudillo without a King. As Leopold prepared to enter Switzerland, another royal scion was asked to leave it. To the modest Lausanne villa of Don Juan, the Spanish Pretender, came two august emissaries from Generalissimo Francisco Franco. They were reported to bear the Caudillo's long deferred invitation to return to Spain. Aspiring Don Juan had waited patiently for 14 years. Perhaps it was time for him too to pack...