Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Detroit's Fire Commission Chairman Paxton Mendelssohn sought to equip battalion chiefs with hand extinguishers. He explained : "As it is now, if the chiefs come across a small fire all they can do is [wait] for the regular fire trucks. People hoot at them...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Haydn, Mendelssohn and Weber. Conductor: Toscanini...
Since October, he has played in 56 U.S. cities and gotten rave notices in all of them for his Bach, Mozart, Brahms and Mendelssohn. Last week, his powerful playing of the Tchaikovsky concerto had a usually unemotional Houston subscription audience shattering tradition and applauding after the first movement. At the end, he was recalled five times in the biggest ovation of the season...
...Mendelssohn's Fifth (Reformation) Symphony was the big work of the program. At times, particularly in the trio of the scherzo, the performance was as fine as I have heard. Any objection about the dominance of the brass was overruled by its ability. From my point of view, Bloch's Concerto Grosso was the tour de force of the evening. The strings joined together with such power an assurance that I truly regretted the omission of the third movement. The piano part is chiefly one of doubling. This was unfortunate last night, for it gave the audience no chance...
...money they made bought them a year of rehearsal time. They played whenever & wherever they could, giving concerts in barns, corn exchanges and the homes of friends. They finally got to play the Mendelssohn Octet with the Pro Arte String Quartet ("they were the gods"). Says Griller: "We had terrific competition-the Budapest, the Busch, all the finest. But we worked our way, rather like worms." For a while they did not even have a name. "I had gone over to Ireland to visit my girl. When I got back, the other three told me they...