Word: weber
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Weber: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Ruggiero Ricci, violin; Carlo Bussotti, piano: London). For all their outdated sighs and postures, these youthful works of the first genuine German Romantic composer (1786-1826) are melodious, unpretentious and full of charm...
...note to our circulation department, TIME-Reader Raymond Weber of San Antonio explains how he got into the habit of giving TIME subscriptions as Christmas gifts to friends and relatives...
Wrote Reader Weber: "Quite a few years ago when I was in college, my roommate and I both subscribed to TIME, read it avidly, even copied TIME'S style in writing to each other when we were apart for summer vacation. The Christmas before we graduated, we were both stumped for a present for each other. We could not afford anything that the other really needed. Finally, we decided that since both our TIME subscriptions expired in December, we would just give TIME to each other. This was not only the perfect gift, but also completely reciprocal. This continued...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Maria Reining, Sena Jurinac, Hilde Gueden, Ludwig Weber; Vienna State Opera Chorus; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Erich Kleiber; London; 4 LPs). Strauss's most melodious score, in a stunning performance. It is dominated by the three brilliant sopranos, whose closing trio is the most affecting part of the opera, but the whole cast is in top form...
...ranks of dull respectability. Sparked by the ideas of the cubists and the fauves, he came home to join the circle of young pioneers around the great photographer and art impresario, Alfred Stieglitz. Already in Stieglitz' stable were Alfred Maurer, Arthur Carles, John Marin, Marsden Hartley and Max Weber. They all knew they were good, though the public had no inkling...