Word: schumann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical hero of Paris last week was a 27-year-old pianist from Long Branch, N.J. (pop. 23,000) named Julius Katchen. Two thousand filled the Theatre des Champs-Elysees to hear his program of Brahms, Schumann, Chopin and Liszt, cheered up four encores and, at the end, crowded around the stage shouting for more. Verdict of the serious-minded critic of Paris-Presse on the performance: "A miracle of faith and fervor...
Bidault's speech, the rest of which was read to the Deputies by Deputy Foreign Minister Maurice Schumann, sought one important stipulation from the U.S. and Britain. At the Bermuda Conference, said Bidault, France will pressure the Americans and British for "precise assurances" that they will keep their troops on the European mainland. But Bidault, ordered to rest completely for 48 hours, retreated gloomily from the scene, his climactic effort a failure. Almost with relief, French politicians grasped at one more chance for delay, put off a vote until this week. In the end the Assembly was expected...
...cone from the Well-tempered Clavier but was Liszt's arrangement of an organ work. The indicating this gave of Mr. Berman's inclinations in musical literature was accurate; Liszt figured in the first work of the program, Chopin composed the last and in between came Schumann, more Chopin, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff. From the Classical period there was only Mozart's Presto from the A-minor Sonata (K, 310). It is the climax of one of Mozart's most poignant works, but its position as an isolated movement beside the intermezzi and preludes with which the program abounded hardly does...
Critics were almost as enthusiastic as the audience, decided that, with a touch of temperament, she could be the successor to such great lieder singers as Lotte Lehmann and Elisabeth Schumann. "A stunning example of vocal artistry," said the New York Times. "A memorable demonstration," said the Herald Tribune...
...more important than material welfare or forms of government is the temper of the people. The United Nations, Schumann Plan, Council of Europe and NATO Brinton regards as significant accomplishments in a nationalistic and individualistic climate which has compelled the Communists in France to "represent Communism as a special benefactor of the peasant proprietor and the small shopkeeper." Whether a formidable union of 300 million people with industrial might superior to that of America would really be desirable, is really academic, for Brinton's shaggy simile declares attempts to form a sovereign union in nationalistic Europe "would be like asking...