Word: smetana
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Music-loving Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston., W. Va. used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town...
...Germans stopped; the Czechs went on clapping stolidly - not cheering, just beating their hands together as if they would never stop. The Germans looked baffled and angry. Finally, Conductor Vaclav Talich held up the score, kissed it and, with an expansive gesture, presented it to the audience. It was Smetana's Má Vlast (My Country}, a cycle of symphonic poems breathing Czech patriotism; its last section tells of a glorious Czech liberation...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Don Gillis' Symphony 5½, Beethoven's Symphony No. 1, Kabalevsky's Colas Breugnon overture, Smetana's The Moldau. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...orchestra will be directed by Harry Kobialka of Wellesley and Malcolm Holmes '28. Included in the program will be Mozart's Symphony No. 28 in C Major, Beethoven's Coriolanus Overture, Heist's "Brook Green" suite, and two dances from the "Bartered Bride" by Smetana...
...Nine. In 1907 Mahler came to New York to conduct the Metropolitan Opera. With such great singers as Enrico Caruso, Marcella Sembrich, Geraldine Farrar, Feodor Chaliapin and Emma Fames he conducted Beethoven's Fidelia, Mozart's Marriage of Figaro and the Met's first performance of Smetana's Bartered Bride...