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Word: telefunken (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brahms: Tragic Overture (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Willem Mengelberg conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides). The competition is tough (Beecham, Toscanini), but this performance stands with the best of them. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Aug. 29, 1949 | 8/29/1949 | See Source »

Mozart: Symphony No. 40, K. 550 (the Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eugen Jochum conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Because the Concertgebouw takes this Mozart masterpiece at a slightly slower pace, it does not have quite the flow or power of Fritz Reiner's recent recording for Columbia (TIME, Jan. 3). Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Records, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Reger: The BÖcklin Suite (German Philharmonic Orchestra of Prague, Joseph Keilberth conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Max Reger, Bavarian organist and composer, was something of a musical tornado in his time (1873-1916), notable for his free & easy ways with harmony and modulation. His more ponderous scores are seldom heard, but these four sonorous tone poems deserve to be. Performance and recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Records, Jul. 18, 1949 | 7/18/1949 | See Source »

Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Hindemith conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 6 sides). Hindemith does not prove that composers are the best conductors of their own music, but this is still a notable performance of a fine work. Recording: good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...pair had been carefully picked to do two important jobs-set up radio communication with Germany, and find places of refuge for other spies. The leader, German-born Erich Gimpel, was a tough, 35-year-old radio engineer. He had learned communications well in seven years with Telefunken, German radio corporation in Peru. He had been interned in Texas, after arrest by Peruvian authorities in 1942, had stayed long enough to pick up U.S. colloquialisms, and spoke English with only the faintest of accents. Repatriated, he had been tried and proved as a courier between Berlin and Madrid. Then...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ESPIONAGE: If at First... | 1/15/1945 | See Source »

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