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...another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in which the musicians leave the orchestra pit one by one until only two violins and the conductor are left). "The speeches started in crescendo. Then people began slipping away one by one. At the end there was no one left and nothing...
...democratic institutions?" Albert Camus (The Plague) is one of Davis' most active and effective workers. Andre Gide has lent the movement his considerable prestige, and so have the British food expert Sir John Boyd Orr (elevated this week to the peerage), Existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre and Orchestra Conductor Sir Adrian Boult...
Beethoven: Symphony No. I (the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). When Beethoven wrote his first symphony at 29, he was beginning to shake loose the shackles of Haydn and Mozart, to hurl thunder on his own. Conductor Walter doesn't miss a clap-or any of the symphony's considerable charm. Recording: good...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Eugenia Zareska, contralto, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 4 sides). A good place to start piercing some of the more heavily veiled mysteries of Mahler. The London Philharmonic is led by Amsterdam's highly capable Conductor van Beinum. Recording: good...
Harvard's Professor Demos had posed his problem specifically about Pianist Walter Gieseking, who had played at Joseph Goebbels' bidding. But in varying degrees other musicians had been tarred with the same brush: Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had once taken a Nazi post, but who fought to keep the Jewish musicians in his Berlin Philharmonic;* and Flagstad, who had returned to occupied Norway to be with her husband (he died before he could be tried for collaboration). Flagstad had never sung for either quislings or Nazis...