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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: There Will Be Joy | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

...were fighting a cut-throat war this week for scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber, who had published it under the Nazis. Hard hit by six new competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: War in Germany | 9/26/1949 | See Source »

...novice in a Salzburg convent, Maria Augusta began to get "bad headaches," she says, and her superiors decided to give her a vacation helping care for the seven children of the widowed Baron Georg von Trapp. Maria Augusta married the baron, bore him three children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Family Life in Vermont | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Mozart: Sonata in B Flat, K. 454 (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Georg Sold, piano; English Decca, 6 sides). A clean, forthright performance of a minor classic. Recording: excellent...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Records, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Enrico Mainardi, cello; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Carl Schuricht conducting; English Decca, 8 sides). This performance of Brahms's fussy but formidable work is not up to the Thibaud-Casals or Heifetz-Feuermann versions. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 28, 1949 | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

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