Word: osher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...project began a year ago, when the Cincinnati Symphony played at one of its popular children's concerts a cantata called Moon Rocket, a musical trip to the moon composed by Dorothy Fee, a New Jersey kindergarten music teacher. The young audience was enthralled. One of them, Tom Osher, then a fifth-grader, suggested to his music teacher. Charlotte Perso, that he and his classmates might be able to do a similar work for performance by the Cincinnati Symphony. The idea appealed to Conductor Thor Johnson, so two classes decided to follow the trip to the moon with their...
Chaim Weizmann of Motol. Russia, son of Osher the timber merchant and Rachel, stood before the Knesset in Jerusalem, taking the oath of office as Israel's first President in 2,000 years. In pain, his eyes seeing dimly through cataracts, he stumbled over the biblical phraseology in his Hebrew address, interjected: "I can't go on." But go on he did, to the end of the address and for almost four lonely and physically painful years afterward. One morning last week, a few days before his 78th birthday, his heart stopped, and Chaim Weizmann, the man, died...