Word: musicians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thought of Chicago's climate bothered him, for one thing: "I'm afraid the wind would make me nervous." He was even more worried about Chicago's hospitality. Explained an intimate friend: "The maestro . . . fears he may be unwelcome because he was appointed first musician of the Reich by Hitler, although he has [since] been cleared by the denazification courts . . ." But Furtwangler was told there was "no need to worry." In Vienna, the gaunt, 62-year-old conductor announced the deal himself: he would conduct for eight weeks at a sum neither he nor Chicago would reveal...
...performances in London and Paris. Last month the New York Philharmonic-Symphony played his early Five Pieces for Orchestra and a Manhattan critic wrote: "It was something of a discovery for audiences to find [them] works of a poet and a craftsman hardly surpassed by any musician now among us. Of course, they were written nearly 40 years ago, and had been so successfully reviled by commentators . . . that the performance has an element of daring." Manhattan's New Friends of Music, in a daring mood too, is playing a season of Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Schoenberg...
...perhaps significant that of all the songs written for the occasion, one of the most popular with the Komsomoltsy themselves was a sentimental little lyric entitled Farewell, Accordion Player. It records the unhappiness of the girls in the village on learning that their town's young musician is going off to study engineering: "That means you're not returning here . . . You'll work in a factory and forget our gay song." Everyone is silent for a moment, thinking. Then the young Komsomolets replies: "Don't be sad; wait till I finish the Institute. There...
...immediately. Since the architects who designed Lowell House had not counted on a zvon, the seventeen iron lungs shook and reverberated through the new structure so much that the residents, now known as Bellboys, erupted into the courtyard, banging pots and pans every time the expert let go. The musician, suspicious by nature and unaccustomed to dining hall food, decided that he was being poisoned. He was shipped back to Russia after a Stillman nurse found him drinking a bottle of ink for breakfast. This left no one with sufficient zvon-aptitude to shake Lowell's rafters, and today...
Lehar's father, a regimental bandmaster in the old imperial Austro-Hungarian Army, wanted him to be a musician, too. So he had worked hard at the Prague Conservatory, studying the violin. When old Johannes Brahms came to Prague, young Franz had fired up his courage, submitted two of his own youthful sonatas to the great composer. After glancing through them, Brahms told him: "Hang your fiddle on the wall and become a composer...