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...artist who hasn't the constitution to stand up under severe treatment such as having funny pictures of himself in the newspapers, being required to perform his best at a moment's notice, and dall the rest--will fail, even if he has a persuasive personal power. He is like someone who has a fortune on the moon. It is there, but he cannot utilize...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fritz Kreisler Explains Difference of Successful Violinist from Great Artist | 10/13/1939 | See Source »

...friend, aged Finnish Conductor Robert Kajanus, died, another prominent Finnish conductor, Georg Schneevoigt, got a chance to rummage in Conductor Kajanus' attic in Helsinki. There he found the missing manuscripts: Lemminkäinen and the Maidens, and Lemminkäinen in Tuonela. Overjoyed, Conductor Schneevoigt got permission to perform them at Finland's 1934 Kalevala Festival. Last week, in an all-Sibelius concert by the NBC Orchestra in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Schneevoigt gave U. S. listeners their first chance to hear the Tuonelese swan's long-lost cronies. While Manhattan's Sibelians clapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragment Found | 10/9/1939 | See Source »

Contrary to usual practice, the band will perform both before the game, and during the whole period of the half, inasmuch as Bates is not bringing a band...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Band Will Perform in Full Uniform for Today's Game | 10/7/1939 | See Source »

...Ambassador Kennedy that he has "one sharp eye on the market and one fond eye on his children." He is peculiarly fitted to perform such a feat, as his picture on the cover shows that he is exotropic, i. e., when he looks straight ahead with either eye the other turns out. . . . Maybe this is why he is doing such a good job of observing what is happening on all sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

...done far more economically than the rest of us do. I was glad to have my brother bear me out, but our combined arguments had no effect on the President, who said cheerfully: 'Well, we will wait and see,' with the calm conviction that he could perform miracles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Miraculous Conviction | 9/25/1939 | See Source »

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