Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...musical, young man, go musical," said Paul Whiteman, genial kind of Jazz, in his dressing room yesterday between shows of his radio stage revue in current Boston presentation, and by the same token added "Go college, young musician go college...
...Musician of the Year was Arturo Toscanini. In three of the world's great musical capitals- Manhattan, Pans and Salzburg-Conductor Toscanini was the sensation of the season, establishing beyond all dispute his title as music's greatest box-office attraction...
...Dictator, Athlete, Doctor, Also-Ran Musician, Preacher, Actress, either singly or together, could not outweigh in the scales of history the influence and importance of Man of the Year Roosevelt...
Fortnight ago Nazi Germany lost its last great musician when Wilhelm Furtwangler resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. He left in a rage of resentment because the Government had banned the music of long-dead Jew Mendelssohn, had tabooed the works of Composer Paul Hindemith. Head music man in Vienna is Conductor Clemens Krauss, who last week accepted Herr Furtwangler's job with the Berlin State Opera. In exchange Vienna wanted Furtwangler but the German conductor excused himself on the grounds of ill-health and exhaustion. The real...
Thanks to Stokowski Philadelphia has had one of the world's great orchestras. And Philadelphians, knowing it, forgot last week that they had laughed at his publicity stunts, thought of him only as a fine musician who had always given them fine concerts. Hundreds of subscribers humbly petitioned him to change his mind, while his friend Curtis Bok announced that he had a plan which might ultimately solve the difficulties...