Word: schubert
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Garrets & Warm Music. A considerable amount of immortal music has been written in cold garrets, with an empty larder in the background. Richard Wagner and Felix Mendelssohn lived comfortable lives, but Mozart, after a life of penny-counting, was buried in an unmarked pauper's grave, and Franz Schubert sold his songs for as little...
...sides). Fred Waring's glee club & orchestra harmonizes ten others (Songs of Devotion, Decca, 10 sides). Operatic Tenor Richard Crooks solos the Negro hymns Were You There? and The Trumpeter (Victor, 2 sides). Alfred Wallenstein directs his new command, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Los Angeles, in the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Decca, 2 sides). For the more secular-minded...
When he was six, Ira Jean Belmont heard Schubert's Serenade and startled his mother by exclaiming, "It was beautiful, especially when I saw those green and blue and purple and all kinds of clouds passing by." His mother's surprise passed, but her son's sensitivity persisted. Whenever Belmont heard the clanging of church bells, the twittering of birds, the echoes of his own voice-multiple colors flashed before his eyes. In his 20s he took up portrait painting, but he kept mixing up sounds and colors. Finally, he submitted to the inevitable. Last week twelve...
...Vaughn Monroe's The Trolley Song, on 160,000 Victor discs. Columbia followed with Harry James's The Love I Long For and 500,000 copies of White Christmas, sung by Frank Sinatra. On the classical front, Conductor Andre Kostelanetz got there first with recordings of the Schubert and Bach-Gounod Ave Marias (Columbia); runner-up was Pianist José Iturbi's recording of Morton Gould's Boogie Woogie Etude (Victor...
...speech on "The Function of Music in a Democracy." Said he: "We find that music and the arts are not necessarily characteristic of Democracy. In fact, the greatest music that has ever been composed was done so under tyrants. . . ." He mentioned Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Schubert - all subjects of the Habsburgs, Napoleon, the Hohenzollerns, Bismarck, the Bourbons, the Romanoffs...