Word: musics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Between wars the good Germans are pushed forward, and they spout about culture, music, art, science and civilization . . . They will be liquidated when they have served the purpose of the nascent militarists...
Joseph Stalin would be 70 years old this week, and all over the world his faithful followers prepared to celebrate the august birthday. To Moscow journeyed the satraps to pay homage. Russia's state music publishing house issued 45 separate Stalin songs, bearing titles such as To the Great Stalin-Glory, Our Strength-Stalin, and You Are Our Hero. The Bulgarian city of Varna on the Black Sea reported that it had changed its name to Stalin. The Czechs sent word that they had renamed their highest mountain, Gerlachovka (8,737 ft.), Mt. Stalin...
...inaugurate a competition in composition and another in instrument playing for pupils in the Dallas public schools. And one night, with visiting Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham on the podium, he sat down at the piano and gave a workmanlike performance of Brahms's Piano Concerto No. 1. Dallas music lovers, whom Hendl has diplomatically described as "extremely perceptive," were delighted...
...hands in front of an orchestra in 1939, when he won a Curtis Institute conducting fellowship with Fritz Reiner. In 1944 he was discharged from two years of Army service, during which he had led a dance band, the Jive Bombers. In the next year he wrote the music for a successful Broadway show, Dark of the Moon, and went to work as assistant conductor of the New York Philharmonic-Symphony. Impressed by his work in New York, the trustees of the Dallas orchestra offered him their conductorship...
According to the schedule, released by Paul S. Edelman '46 3L, head of the Forum's planning committee, the first program will be followed by a symposium on "Arts in America," to be held during the week of March 6. Separate discussions of music, poetry, theater, painting, and architecture will be held...