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MOUSSORGSKY-Oskar von Riesemann, translated by Paul England-Knopf...
Already this season having kept their time & wits to the visiting leadership of visiting Frit?, Busch, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, Arthur Rodzinski, Evgene Goossens, Maurice Ravel-the facile musicians of the New York Symphony Orchestra last week beat, blew & bowed to the conducting of Oskar Fried, guest from Berlin on his first conductorial visit...
...less skilled in the art of the orchestra was Enrique Fernandez Arbos from Spain, who followed Oskar Fried in leading the orchestra. His also was his first visit as a conductor, although 25 years ago he had been concertmaster of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. From Boston he had been called to become permanent director of the Madrid Symphony Orchestra, then a ragged organization of men who played, well and seldom, music of all nations but Spain. That was because for 12 years foreign guest conductors had been hired, who had no interest, no experience with indigenous music...
Authorities knew that the message came from a tiny emergency radio set aboard the Dawn. So many hours had she been missing that they knew she was down at sea. Rising, falling somewhere on the winter waves were Mrs. Grayson, Norwegian Pilot Oskar Omdal, Navigator Brice Goldsborough, Fred Keohler, Wright engine expert...
...said two Jewish scientists connected with Hebrew University, Jerusalem-Dr. Fritz Bodenheimer of the Zionist Experimental Agricultural Station and Oskar Theodor of the University's microbiological institute. They had spent July in the Sinai Desert; had found, as had the old marching Israelites, the white pellets of manna on the ground under tamarisk shrubs, varying in size from a pinhead to a pea. They looked closer and saw the little pills forming as yellow, sulphur-like drops on the tamarisk twigs. Other scientists, before, had noted that phenomenon and had decided that the drops oozed from tiny punctures...