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When Werner Janssen formed his symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...
...Vincere Aut Mori"--To Conquer or To Die--is the ringing motto emblazoned on the Cambridge Fire Department's silken standard, designed and sown by one of its own members. "Organization and efficiency" might be a suitable, if less heroic, description of the innards of the light brick building in the spacious square under the shadow of Memorial Hall. Gone are the days of penny ante outside in the sun, of shirt-sleeved players and the inevitable kibitzers, who represent the common conception of the way a fireman spends his spare time. Science has forced the jovial, slapstick era into...
...Music for the fun of it, with nobody listening," is the motto of the newest Yardling enterprise, an informal orchestra open to tooters and would be tooters, no matter how sweet or sour...
Arnold Schoenberg himself once said: "I will not show you that my music is beautiful. You know it not . . . I know it." And this might be taken as the lasting and only motto against those who apply to Schoenberg and Berg criticism like that of the Musical Courier...
...fresh as a newspaper. The Reconstruction of Europe is in part a lively resuscitation of the Congress of Vienna from corridors, back rooms and boudoirs. The Austrian secret police dogged everybody at the Congress where Emperor Francis I played host, and their reports, meticulously preserved by the Habsburgs whose motto was never to throw a piece of paper away, have a narrative verve and unvarnished realism which are a Ferrero specialty...