Word: sibelius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...National Arts Foundation was making good on its promise to keep Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius (Finlandia, Valse Triste) in stogies for the rest of his life. Anticipating his 84th birthday Dec 8, the foundation started air-expressing 84 boxes of cigars to his forest cottage near Helsinki...
...Jean Sibelius . . . greatest of living composers...
Able, splenetic Sir Thomas Beecham had once disdained the Scots as "damned fools to throw away ?60,000 on a festival." But on opening night, before a jammed audience in Usher Hall, he was right there, ready, and with Franck, Sibelius, Brahms and Berlioz, he put on as good a show as ever. When he waved the men of his Royal Philharmonic to their feet on the fourth curtain call, they sat still; he howled at them in mock fury, then turned to the delighted audience: "You have observed, ladies and gentlemen, that this orchestra has every sort of virtue...
...Multitudes. Finally, surrounded by his close friends at lunch at the Savoy, Conductor Beecham got into a vivace finale. After the toastmaster had read telegrams from Jan Sibelius and Richard Strauss, he roared, "Where's the one from Mozart?" When one speaker said Sibelius had once remarked that Beecham was the "greatest living conductor," Sir Thomas chirped "Hear! Hear...
Finnish Composer Jean Sibelius, 83, called off his trip to the U.S. because "my health will not permit...