Word: sibelius
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...bright Ian Mackay of the London News Chronicle listed ten men whom he thought people might still be talking about 100 years from now.* Last week his paper asked four prominent Britons which of his ten would get their votes. Bernard Shaw would vote only for Composer Jean Sibelius, so Sibelius was the only unanimous immortal. (The other three pickers agreed on both Shaw and Sibelius.) Wrote Shaw: "As for Churchill and the other political gentlemen-it would be rash to include them...
...Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, Mohandas Gandhi, Bernard Shaw, Albert Einstein, Dwight Eisenhower, Charles Chaplin, Jean Sibelius, Benedetto Croce, Augustus John...
Applause followed her through Norway and Sweden. In Finland, Composer Jean Sibelius offered her coffee, but after hearing her sing, cried: "Champagne!" In Paris, her first house was "papered." From her second concert, enthusiasts were turned away in droves. She swept through South America...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Weber's overture to Der Frei-schütz, Beethoven's Second Symphony, Sibelius' Third Symphony. Conductor: George Szell...
...list includes the rarely performed ninety-fifth Symphony in C minor of Haydn, a Stravinsgy Symphony in Three Movements; Ravels suite, "Le Tombau de Coupler in"; and Richard Strauss's "Death and Transfiguration." The orchestra will play again tomorrow afternoon at 3.30 o'clock, with a Prokofleff suite, the Sibelius First Symphony, and the Haydn ninety-fifth making up the program...