Word: almira
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EARLY GERMAN OPERA FROM THE GOOSEMARKET (Angel). Opera in Germany in the early 1700s was dominated by the Italians, except in Hamburg, where a company on Goosemarket Street performed homegrown works such as Handel's Almira, Queen of Castile and The Proud, Fallen and Re-Elevated Croesus, by Reinhard Keiser, one of the most prolific opera composers of his day. A formal dance suite from Almira and several scenes from Croesus, along with excerpts from two other Goosemarket productions, are played by the Berlin Philharmonic, Wilhelm Brückner-Rüggeberg conducting...
...District Attorney Frank S. Hogan pressed the indictments against Jack under sections of the city charter prohibiting city officials from accepting favors from persons seeking or performing city business. Hogan also said that Jack, when first questioned officially about the apartment remodeling, had "concocted" a story that his wife, Almira, had paid Contractor-Painter Fred Bechtel out of her $100 weekly household allowance. "Prior to telling me this," Hogan said, "Mr. Jack had told Mr. Ungar that if he told me Mrs. Jack had made the payments . . . the investigation would be over because I would have so much confidence...