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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Corona-haired Scientist Albert Einstein looks more like a concert violinist than most concert violinists do. To many a ruthless young mathematician, fiddling is the best thing Oldster Einstein does nowadays. In any event, he fiddles well enough to be heard in public. One sleety afternoon last week he made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Einstein Fiddles | 2/3/1941 | See Source »

But last week young Mr. Chrysler got his chance. Richmond's five-year-old Virginia Museum of Fine Arts put the whole Chrysler collection on exhibition, and 989 art lovers including Richmond's floweriest socialites went to look. To do right by the occasion, Collector Chrysler chartered a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Chrysler in Richmond | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

I had occasion to read Waldrop's article while home in Washington, and find the Crimson's analysis of his discussion most faulty and misleading. It is true that Waldrop states that Professor Fay has "backed water" in his attitude toward this present war as against the first World War...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 1/20/1941 | See Source »

Midway of the between-halves recital an excited technician rushed up to Thomas C. Peebles, manager of the band, and protested violently that he was being forced to turn the program off the air any time a Harvard tune was played. The musicians rose to the occasion with a snappy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BAND GOES TO TOWN ON BLUES TO AVOID ASCAP-BMI FEUDIN' | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there...

Author: By Jonas Barish, | Title: THE MUSIC BOX | 1/9/1941 | See Source »

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