Word: popular
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many favorable comments, including an inspiring letter from Thomas L. Sidlo, president of the Musical Arts Association operating the Cleveland Orchestra. He states : 'I have rarely seen as fine an exhibit anywhere and I am confident that your efforts will aid greatly in bringing about a greater popular appeal for fine music.' " To date, some participating department stores are making further use of TIME for Music by passing it on to music classes in the public schools. Teachers have also written us to ask whether they could have the display for their own music students, and sets...
Outside the offices of Rio's Communist Tribune-Popular, the pavement was white with paper, littered with broken desks, smashed typewriters. Just three and a half hours after the Brazilian Foreign Office announced the diplomatic break with Russia, a slug-happy gang of rowdies had broken into the Tribunals plant. They whanged sledge hammers against the presses, later smashed up the editorial offices. Though the press room is only about 300 yards from Rio's central police station, the wreckers had the place to themselves for two hours. When a squad of military police showed up, the cops...
This year, with a $300,000 Government subsidy, he imported 26 musicians from Italy, France, Belgium. He raised salaries. He laid down a program of five two-hour rehearsals a week. Last week's concert, first of a series at popular prices (60?-$1.80), showed what could be done. Never had the works of Beethoven, Massenet and Moussorgsky sounded so sonorously in Caracas. At intermission, flanked by members of his revolutionary Junta, President Betancourt hustled backstage to congratulate the maestro. Cried Betancourt: "Magnifico...
...sisters, is the man who launched such Tin Pan Alley successes as Beat Me Daddy and Scrub Me Mamma. Said he: "Look, Mr. Stravinsky, I would not like to write a chapter in my book about you -a book called You've Got to Die Before You Write Popular Songs." At first Stravinsky didn't get it. Then Levy reminded him of what Tin Pan Alley grave robbers had done to Tchaikovsky and Chopin. Why shouldn't Stravinsky steal from his own Firebird...
...business? By that most popular of indicators-corporate profits-the answer last week was "Wonderful!" As third-quarter earnings came in, they made boom reading. But businessmen and economists who look beyond their profit records alone threw no hats...