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Died. Wilhelm Furtwangler, 68, famed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic Or chestra, one of Europe's leading interpreters of Beethoven, Schubert and Wagner, often in hot water because of his equivocal attitude toward the Nazis; of pneumonia; in Baden-Baden, Germany...
Composer Giordano (1867-1948) made his most successful effort with Chénier (others: Fedora, Madame Sans-Gene). The opera's melodies may sing a little too much like Verdi's without Verdi's dramatic thrust; its flow may be as slippery as Wagner's without Wagner's soaring sense of continuity. But it has a ravishing choral addio (Act I), a roof-raising farewell duet, and cannily applause-getting arias for all of its principal singers...
...think that Mr. Ives' patience in waiting (all the while working over his insurance accounts) should be rewarded by extravagant praise of his daring and originality. Undoubtedly he experimented at an early time with techniques which have since become important in contemporary music. But overtones of Brahms and Wagner, in much diluted form, pervade the work. In the melodic writing there is a curious ungainliness and ungraciousness, and yet it serves well to further the dominantly religious tone of the Symphony, best exemplified by the superb hymnal passages at the beginning...
...called Holly. Nay, the Table Round hath more mouthes in this twelvemonth fedd than ever it didde the whiles Kyng Arthur supped him there. First comith that pritty knight Sir Robert, the Taylor yclept, and feigneth to bee Launcelot, and then harde after hym ye yongge esquirt Robert a Wagner, yt callith himselfe Prince Valiant...
After one unsuccessful try at the Senate, McCarran rode to Washington on the Roosevelt tide of 1932. In his early Senate days he generally voted with the New Deal, e.g., for the Wagner Act and the NRA (which he later denounced), but Franklin Delano Roosevelt of Hyde Park could not long remain the leader of Patrick Anthony McCarran of Reno. Their great split was over the 1937 attempt to pack the Supreme Court, but long before then there had been portents of things to come. Within a week after being sworn in, McCarran made a Senate speech against an Administration...