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...metal, silver started as a substitute for tin, copper and other critical metals, was soon found superior to them in many ways. Silver has many ideal properties: it resists corrosion better than any other metal, is little affected by atmospheric conditions, is extremely malleable, and is an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. Some of its uses...
...lever of his prestige to pry at the roots of Fascism. To most Italians, who rate music as important as food and wine and a good deal more important than politics, that lever was a powerful one. To music-loving Germans (who gave him a smashing reception as conductor of the Bayreuth Wagner Festival) it was only a shade less powerful...
Olga Samaroff Stokowski, concert pianist, ex-wife of Conductor Leopold, proved herself the perfect wartime dinner guest: she brought along not only her ra tion book but also her cook...
...music is concerned, the U.S. State Department is all set for the peace. To Radio Conductor Don Voorhees, who had asked for pointers on a day-of-victory broadcast, the State Department last week made its position perfectly clear. In fact, it went to town...
While U.S.-born and U.S.-trained musicians have been rated high as violinists, cellists, pianists and opera singers, no U.S. maestro has so far reached international fame as a symphony conductor."This scarcity of important U.S. maestros has long kept U.S. critics and concertgoers guessing. Commonest rationalizations : 1) Americans lack the dictatorial temperament characteristic of men like Toscanini, Stokowski, Koussevitzky ; 2) the U.S. lacks bush-league opera houses and symphony orchestras such as provide European maestros with experience...