Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edinburgh's International Festival of Music and Drama was three years old, and finally big enough to be spanked. Last week, with this season's final performances, the critics' hairbrushes were flying...
...alas, the coming of the gasoline engine has removed the living spur to expressive, non-blasphemous profanity until now only a pale substitute survives-the words are remembered but the music has been lost...
What nettled the doyen of British critics most was a performance of Rossini's Semiramide Overture by the Berlin Philharmonic under Sir John Barbirolli. "No really musical person," groused Newman, "would leave his comfortable home . . . specifically to hear this . . . But bring, at great expense, a German orchestra all the way from Berlin to play this negligible bit of Italian music in the capital of Scotland, and an English conductor all the way from Manchester to conduct it, and apparently it becomes, by some magical transformation . . . a 'festival' work and we trudge all the way to Edinburgh...
...Strauss it had been a lifetime of music. His first compositions were written when he was six; he kept working right up to his final illness. But for music lovers, nothing he wrote after 47 came near what he had done before. He never again reached the heights of his great opera, Der Rosenkavalier...
...Hans Kindler, 56, Netherlands-born founder and longtime conductor of Washington, D.C.'s National Symphony Orchestra; after a stomach operation; in Watch Hill, R.I. Cellist Kindler founded the first orchestra in the Nation's capital during the depression (1931) after seven attempts by others had failed, entranced music lovers by conducting in sport jacket and shirtsleeves, finally resigned last December in a dispute with the orchestra's backers...