Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pierre Monteux is also one of the very few Frenchmen whose favorite composer is the arch-Germanic Johannes Brahms. San Franciscans have marveled at the Rhine wine savor of his Beethoven, Brahms and Schumann, as well as the elegance of his Debussy and Ravel. Pierre Monteux's ranging tastes and orchestral mastery have come to him during a lifetime in which he has conducted no less than 63 symphony orchestras in Europe...
...program, in order of presentation, is a follows: Schubert's Tragic Symphony, the first movement of Schumann's Piano Concerts, Turkish March from Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, Kamarin Skaya by Glinka, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Dance of Buffoons from the Snow Maiden...
Novak, who graduated from the New England conservatory of Music in 1941, is president of the Harvard Music Club. He was soloist last year with the Worcester Festival Orchestra, the late Albert Stoessel conducting. Novak will play the piano solo in the Schumann selection...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
Afrikaners are taking Schumann's scheme seriously. The tall, bearded potential rain maker studied and taught at Yale and other U.S. and German universities, last year got an award from the Royal Meteorological Society of London for his studies of fogs on airdromes. Last week Capetown's City Council was pondering putting up $1,000,000 for the rainmaking apparatus...