Word: leopold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With two exceptions,* all of today's first-rank violinists are Jews. A good percentage of them are also Russians. And practically all of the Russians (Jascha Heifetz, Mischa Elman, Efrem Zimbalist, etc.) are onetime pupils of crotchety, bearded, Hungarian-Jewish Leopold Auer,† who went to St. Petersburg in 1868 to teach at Czar Alexander II's Imperial Conservatory of Music...
...House of Commons India Secretary Leopold Stennett Amery, redundant master of officialese, declared last week: "There is no famine [in India] and no widespread prevalence of acute shortage...
...music was caught at the first bar, and held to the final chord. A prayer is being offered from this quarter that a recording by Dr. Koussevitsky and his orchestra be made soon to take its rightful place next to the one made some time ago by Leopold Stokowski...
...year ago Shaw got his first chance in high-brow music when Manhattan's Marble Collegiate Church invited him to conduct its choir on the side. So far, husky, blue-eyed Robert Shaw has stuck to choruses, never attempted to conduct a symphony orchestra. But symphonic bigwigs from Leopold Stokowski to Sergei Koussevitzky have offered to teach him how. Self-consciously modest, yet with a touch of the fire-&-brimstone revivalist, he refuses to be rushed. Says he: "Up until the past year I felt more like a cheerleader than a choral director. Dawgonnit! I don't feel...
...Died. Leopold Anton Johan Sigismund Josef Korsinus, Count von Berchtold, Baron von und zu Ungarschitz, Fratting und Pullitz, 79, one of the numerous men individually charged with starting World War I; in Sopron, Hungary. He was Austria-Hungary's Foreign Minister from 1912 to 1915, wrote his Government's ultimatum to Serbia after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his morganatic wife in Sarajevo. An Austrian Red Book in 1919 charged that Berchtold used fraud to get Emperor Franz Josef to sign the declaration of war-that he referred to a fictitious Serbian attack, then hastily expunged...