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Dec. 7, 1940: Yes, the bell on traffic semaphores in the old Warner Bros. cartoons wasn’t a joke. Today, we just honk since drivers are usually checking their BlackBerrys when the light turns green. The audience walks out on the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Violin Concerto. According to the New York Philharmonic’s archives, the orchestra has performed the concerto three times in its history, twice in 1952 and again in 1967. Astrid Allwyn receives her final divorce decree from Robert Kent today, Jimmie Fidler says. One year to Pearl Harbor. ALSO |
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Academy of Music, 1940? That might have been my mother “flouncing” out! She never was a Schoenberg fan.
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