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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Perhaps Together. Veteran Violinist Alexander Schneider, who arranged the festival (and the recording of it by Columbia), could not explain exactly how Casals had done it-"A million words are of no use." Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was more articulate. His admiration did not stem from "the musical facts I may learn from Casals. It is the reinforcement of an attitude that is so inspiring. He stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music, and you feel unafraid to express it yourself after you have met this...
...evening plastering Paris with posters denouncing the republican government and advocating a prompt return to empire. At his Rue de Varenne mansion the grandson of King Louis Philippe was holding miniature courts and receiving ambassadors from abroad, for all the world as though the Bourbons still reigned. To stem the monarchist tide, France's legislature passed a law ordering from France's soil forever all heads of those families which had ever held the throne of France...
...Composer Menotti had let two Broadway neophytes named Chandler Cowles and Efrem Zimbalist Jr., both 28, convince him that they could make The Medium a success on the Main Stem...
...part of Boston's newspaper trouble is an overcrowded market. With only one less newspaper than New York, Boston has a circulation area (3,000,000) only one-fourth as big. But some of the papers' troubles also stem from a unique and weirdly wonderful kind of indigenous Boston journalism...
...moans about his "troubles," heard from his pinnacle of success, make some fans snicker with envy or disbelief. But the fact that his troubles stem largely from a walnut-hard competitive instinct, an inch-short temper and a worry wart as big as a baseball, makes them no less real...