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...distinguish whatever symphonic music they intend to massacre as having unusual structural or melodic strength, and the Fifth is no exception. respect for the marvelous clarity and controlled exuberance of this symphony has out ridden many interpretative storms from the "Fate-knocking-on-the-door" theorists' down to the present-day "Victory symphony" campaign (based on the rhythm of the first four notes), and will probably survive many more. The recent Columbia recording of the Fifth is the most satisfactory to date, Bruno Walter and the Vienna Philharmonic giving it a more intelligent and broadly conceived reading than that...
When Rickey went to the Cardinals 25 years ago, the club had no more color or draw than the present-day St. Louis Browns. After he got back from France, where he served as a chemical warfare major in the A.E.F., he took stock. There was only one really good ballplayer on the team, Second Sacker Rogers Hornsby. There was a debt of $175,000; no money for a training trip that winter, not even enough for new uniforms...
...examples of the stained-glass worker's art. They were Renaissance-style windows of the sort first-rate U.S. stained-glass makers had been studiously avoiding since the early 1900s. Moreover, the artist who had thus dared oppose the prevailing medieval style was the most famous of all present-day glass stainers: a stocky, bull-necked Hollander named Joep Nicolas, who arrived in the U.S. two years ago with a wife, two children and a load of glazier's equipment, and set up shop in a large studio on Manhattan's upper West Side. In Roermond (southern...
Author Ewen hopefully pictures the present-day U.S. as a singing, playing, listening, understanding nation of 10,000,000 music students, 50,000 school bands and orchestras, though he tempers this estimate with such revealing anecdotes as Samuel Goldwyn's Hollywood-scented remark to Jascha Heifetz: "Money isn't everything, Mr. Heifetz. I can make you famous!" More typical of today, Author Ewen thinks, is Jose Iturbi's story of how he found the radio of a roadside lunch-wagon tuned to a Sunday evening symphony. The clatter melted into silence as customers, dishwashers, waitresses succumbed...
...repudiation of the Hitlerian myth without being unfairly vindictive. Drawing his somewhat vague title from the letters of Richard Wagner, he points out clearly its appropriateness and the significance of its sourse. With a facile and sometimes flip pen, Viereck traces the origins of the feverish ideas of present-day Germany to the Romanticism of the last century and to even remoter sources of German character...