Word: mendelssohns
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...Brain Trust: "A bunch of theoretical, intellectual, professional nincompoops from Columbia University." On the New Deal: "Spurious, sporadic, uncertain, unsound, unworkable, and unconstitutional." On the proposal to establish a Federal Fine Arts Commission: "I do not see how anybody can enjoy listening to the strains of Mendelssohn with the seat of his pants out." On President Roosevelt's promise that he did not want to become a dictator: "Assurances are not worth a continental when they come from men who care no more for their word than a tomcat cares for a marriage license in a back alley...
Walter Damrosch (Fri. 2 p. m. NBC-Blue), in 60 minutes of Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Wagner. Grainger, Tchaikowsky and others, returns for his eleventh successive season as patriarch of classical music educators...
Arturo Toscanini (Sat. 3:30 p.m., NBC-Blue) conducts at the first International Music Festival at Villa Triebschen, Lake Lucerne, in Maria Luigi Cherubini's Anacreon Overture, Johannes Brahms's Third Symphony, Felix Mendelssohn's Italian Symphony, Richard Wagner's Die Meistersinger Prelude...
...rules forbade kissing at the church altar between bride and bridegroom; the throwing of confetti or rice (an ancient fertility symbol) at the church door. Banned was secular and operatic music such as the Wagner and Mendelssohn wedding marches, Oh, Promise Me, At Dawning etc. Instead, Dr. Piepkorn recommended Bach and a number of lesser church composers. And he directed that wedding rehearsals be brief, dignified non-conversational. Apparently shocked at newspaper accounts of the casual gaiety of the rehearsal of the John Roosevelt-Anne Clark wedding last month, Dr. Piepkorn said: "They must have had a merry time...
...Lehar's operettas (The Merry Widow, et al.). Carmen, a perennial favorite in German opera houses, was written by French Composer Georges Bizet, who is generally credited with some Jewish blood. Kulturkammer authorities got around this difficulty by officially "Aryanizing" Bizet. Although music by such Jewish composers as Mendelssohn, Mahler. Meyerbeer is now unheard in Germany, German publishing houses go on publishing it for export, and do a pretty good business...