Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Boston Pops Orchestra--Paul Cherkassy conducts among other items, some Strauss waltzes, a selection from "Oklahoma," the slow movement from Tscharkowsky's fifth symphony, and Bach's Air on the G-string. At Symphony Hall...
Many Germans thought it arrogant and pretentious of a schoolmaster to mention his little school and the big National Socialist movement in the same breath. Some knew that it was also dangerous. In March 1933, just 44 days after Hitler came to power, SA men surrounded the ancient Salem castle that housed the school, and arrested Headmaster Hahn...
Composer Berg dedicated this work to his teacher, Arnold Schonberg. But he had not built it on Schonberg's "twelve-tone" technique.* Between two fast, brightly dissonant movements, Berg sandwiched a melodic slow movement that had listeners gasping: the themes build to a climax, then run backward to a close. 1914, even gave it a few licks while he was in the Austrian army. Its successful Berlin premiere in 1925 surprised Berg as much as anyone. He had expected to be booed; instead he got a dozen curtain calls. (The U.S. first saw Wozzeck in 1931; Manhattan audiences heard...
...have organized the 'Palestine for Arabs' movement," the letter said. "Our intention is to recruit volunteers to join the 'Franklin D. Roosevelt Legion' to fight in Palestine and protect that land for its rightful owners, the Arabs...
...follower of our great late president, you will understand why we have named it the FDR Legion. Mr. Roosevelt would have believed in and given his support to our movement...