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Music-loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town...
...proved a tougher contest than Barbara Ann anticipated. A sharp, high wind off the Vltava River (the Moldau) troubled all contestants in the precise school figure events. And a 53° temperature the day before had thawed the ice in the open-air stadium and left it bumpy and irregular, making it hard for the judges to check the tracings of the figures. Barbara Ann finished her school figures out in front-but two of the seven judges had not picked her for first place. Two days later, in the free skating, Barbara Ann easily distanced the competition, boosted...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Don Gillis' Symphony 5½, Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon overture, Smetana's The Moldau. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
Windows on the Future. From the windows of his paneled office, wiry, weathered President Eduard Benes could look across the historic Moldau, beyond the towers and spires of the golden capital, toward the rolling, cherished "Czech lands." For three decades, in the underground, in exile and in this office, he had labored to shape those lands and their people into a state...
Smetana: Vltava ("The Moldau") (Bruno Walter conducting the New York Philharmonic-Symphony; Columbia; 3 sides). Scenic ride, well recorded, on the Czech river...