Word: zionist
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
...look meagre and the War Office was desperate. Acetone was skimped in making cordite, with the result that, in a naval engagement off South Africa, British shells glumphed dismally into the water a few yards from the guns. Then it was learned that Dr. Chaim Weizmann, the great Zionist, had obtained acetone as a fermentation product in corn mash. After that with huge corn supplies in the U. S. and Canada, British cordite makers got along better...
...Arabs had won a glorious victory in the British Parliament, and it was a bitter day for those many Jews who had labored so that-as Zionist Dr. Chaim Weizmann once put it-"Palestine should be just as Jewish as America is American and England is English." Malcolm Macdonald had passed his test...
Ernest Bloch: Quartet (Stuyvesant String Quartet; Columbia: 12 sides). Composed in 1916, when musical Zionist Bloch was hurling his Hebraic thunderbolts with youthful fervor, his lone quartet has waited until now for its first (a fine) recording...