The Archive · 1938

Armed Men Smash Gate

The third raid was-on April 27 when gang of armed men sh their way through A Russian watchman elver to give the alarm and the rockets were fired. It had been agreed in the after the February raid event of further trouble suddenly in the morning. he performance was somewhat poorly attended y a pity for the programme contained n h pleasing Musie, and the orchestra Ways on top of form, main consistently high level al bursts into the brilliance. The attendance, incidentally, offers yet further proof apparent fallacy of the theory price determines popularity The concert was given over to Czechoslovakian composers. If one was asked afier the concert what the national instruments of the Czechs was, the might wickedly and tinglingly reply "the triangle."

It is one ofthe unanswered musical qu irm tions of all time as to why this un-

1 piece of stove-piping should ever have found its way into the symphony orchestra. Both Smetan and Dvorak employ it relentless! ug a reraft gun, pictur Douglas DE planes, was California, at the Ordnance Department's times. to introduce Bohemian Smet wa the first in the field folk song into Bie Narcotic Gang in writing operatic music. wecne not et been equalled in the usicar history of that country. The overture to

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