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Finland's craggy, 78-year-old Jean Sibelius was interviewed early this month, at his villa north of Helsinki, by LIFE Photographer Eliot Elisofon. His report...
...down in easy chairs around the table and drank real coffee and cognac in sherry glasses. Sibelius asked for a large glass so his shaking hands wouldn't spill the cognac. The glass never came. He said he had one bottle of whiskey left, but was saving it. He had great difficulty lighting the stump of a Finnish Balkan tobacco cigar...
Richard Strauss, of Nazi Germany, whose only rival to the title of greatest living composer is Jean Sibelius, of Nazi-dominated Finland, has dared to defy the Führer. The story came out last week in the Schweizer Illustrierte Zeitung of Zurich, Switzerland...
...Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting, with Composer Cowell at the piano; Columbia; 4 sides). Henry ("Tone Clusters") Cowell has been noted chiefly as a composer-pianist who plays his ear-wrenching works partly with his fists and elbows. This composition is in a surprising, melodious vein that sounds somewhat like Sibelius...
...decorated with Naval flags and pennants. The evening called for cool whites and summer formals. Mal Hallett's Orchestra furnished the music. Under the direction of Lt. (jg) O. B. Dahle, the N. T. S. Glee Club sang several numbers including the beloved "This Is My Home" by Sibelius, "Service Medley", the Negro spiritual "Steal Away", and "This Is Worth Fighting For", featuring the baritone voice of Ensign Bernard Lamb...