Word: sibelius
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...Sibelius: Tapiola (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Koussevitzky conduct ing; Victor; 4 sides). The Finnish bard's bleak saga of his native forests, sturdily recounted by the Bostonians...
...Janssen pounded and hacked his way to a musical career, over the grim opposition of his father, who wanted him to carry on in Janssen's Hofbrau. In the early 1930s the younger Janssen made his splash with Europe's great orchestras, was rated tops in playing Sibelius, by the great Finn himself. But when the New York Philharmonic-Symphony tried him in 1934, Janssen failed to click. He went to Hollywood, wrote the score for The General Died At Dawn, married Actress Ann Harding. For two years Janssen has carpentered music for Walter Wanger...
...Marseillaise was banned in Austria in 1840, Robert Schumann deftly quoted from it in his Patchingsschwankaus Wien (Viennese Carnival Joke). The mere name of Verdi was a slogan for Italian nationalists, because it was an acrostic for the then uncrowned "Victor Emmanuel Red'ltalia" (King of Italy). Sibelius' Finlandia rallied Finns when Finland belonged to Russia. And nowadays the opening "Fate" theme of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (corresponding to the Morse code . . . ) symbolizes occupied Europe's V campaign...
Last week the great Jean Sibelius, 76-year-old Finnish composer, appealed to the U.S. people not to deny Finland their sympathy, since Finland had to make a hard and bitter choice. Said...
...Composer Sibelius did not mention that the "barbaric hordes of the East" had not bombed Finland this time until Finland had taken Hitler as her ally. But that was the bitterness which was Finland's choice. Had she not so chosen, she might have been mercilessly attacked by the equally barbaric and far more dangerous hordes of the West...