Word: 200th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Potsdam, one Dr. Ernst Meyer, professor of "music-sociology" in the east zone's Humboldt University, observed the 200th anniversary of Bach's death with a speech entitled "Bach and Social Cohesion." The title was barely out of his mouth when one listener piped up, "What has that to do with Bach?" When Dr. Meyer remarked that Thuringia-born Bach was nowhere honored as much as in the Soviet Union, another bellowed, "Aha! we knew this was coming." More than 100, who had come to hear Bach's music, walked...
...WNBC (Tues. 7:30 p.m., E.D.T.), the nation's lowest-paid disc jockey entered the overcrowded field. White-maned, 63-year-old Leopold Stokowski, for 24 years conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, began a four-week show. Stokowski will play his own recordings of Bach music, commemorating the 200th anniversary of Bach's death, and will accept a $1 bill in payment...
Record-makers the world over were getting set for the 200th anniversary this July of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Some of the best of the new Bach recordings...
...celebration would not take place for another four years, but President Dwight D. Eisenhower of Columbia University was getting his invitations out early. Last week he invited 750 colleges, universities, libraries and museums all over the world to help Columbia observe its 200th anniversary in 1954. So far, all he knew about the type of celebration Columbia would have was its "theme...