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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then he may expect that a people who have lost all strength of character will not find in any of these acts of oppression . . . sufficient grounds for taking up arms again." This time, however, Adolf Hitler found at the head of the conquered nation, not a politician of the sort he had been used to dealing with, but a soldier...
Strategic Retreat. The crisis in Franco-German relations had come at last. It had been brewing since December, when the Marshal dismissed Pierre Laval-a politician of the sort that Adolf Hitler can deal with. The Marshal's trusted aide, Admiral Jean Darlan, was in Paris conferring with Laval and with Hitler's Ambassador, Otto Abetz. Admiral Darlan was empowered to offer Laval reinstatement in the Government on an equal footing with himself and War Minister General Charles Huntziger, the Marshal retaining supreme authority. That was the Marshal's strategic withdrawal to positions he had previously prepared...
...badly arranged enemy, the British overcame one vessel at a time> Only two escaped. The French flagship Orient took fire and blew up-and with it died the flag captain's son, Giacomo Casabianca, whose willful refusal to get away with the crew won him a sort of immortality as Felicia Dorothea Hemans' Boy on the Burning Deck...
...lyrical Third fell short in Brahmsian power. The Fourth, then, is Brahm's finest work in the symphonic form. It is pretentious, but for me at least, it fulfills its pretensions. As commentators have pointed out, the whole work is steeped in passion, even bitterness. It is a sort of Brahms confessional. I myself am increasingly impressed with the first movement, which, in the words of an eminent critic, starts out as though it had been going on for a long time and we were just becoming aware of it, and then builds up through long sustained periods to what...
...single Victor record are impressive motets by Palestrina and Durante (17633) moderately well sung by the Augustana Choir under Henry Veld....And for Wagner fans, there is a new pressing of the overture to Die Meistersinger played by Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra. This sort of stuff is right up Stokowski's alley. He gives a brilliant, bang-up performance of the prelude to the third act of Lohengrin, on the fourth side...