Word: antone
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...year there was no festival at Bayreuth, because the theatre was undergoing necessary post-War repairs. This year, however, from July 19 to Aug. 20, it is being resumed under the stage direction of Siegfried Wagner .(son of the composer), the orchestral leadership of Karl Elmendorf, Karl Muck and Anton Witek. Tristan und Isolde was the first production. It will be followed by Parsifal and Der Ring des Nibelungen. Critics announced the productions were brilliant-worthy candles for the shrine...
When term classes ended last week for students of Holy Cross, Jesuit college at Worcester, Mass., a gentle-faced German student hastened to the train that would start him toward Germany. He was Anton Lang II, second son of the able Christus of the Passion Players of Oberammergau (see p. 19). At Holy Cross, Anton II had proved himself able (high marks) and entertaining (violinist with the musical clubs...
After months of raging, there was satisfaction last week at Oberammergau, home of the famed Passion Players. Anton Lang, able Christus, had written a letter denouncing his nephew Otto Lang for apostasy from Catholicism to Methodism. America, U. S. Catholic weekly, printed the letter: ". . . Never before was it known that any child of Oberammergau did such a thing in America as to leave the Catholic Church. For his passing over into the Methodist Church neither his relatives nor Oberammergau can be held responsible. Acting as a good Catholic, my son [Anton], who at present is studying at Holy Cross College...
Director-in-chief Hofmann's pol icy will doubtless continue to permit Curtis Institute teachers to perform as well as instruct. Active interplay of public and professional life keeps classrooms alive. Herr Hofmann was himself taught by Anton Rubenstein at an active period during the latter's career. Conversely, Herr Hofmann has found time during his best piano years for activities outside the concert hall, not only teaching but inventing mechanisms. Many a luxurious motor car bears Hofmann shock absorbers. By a Hofmann device, the finest shadings of a master's touch can be charted beside the perforations in pianola...
...Died. Anton T. Kliegl, 54, developer of the famed Klieglight, which has enabled cinema directors to photograph outdoor scenes in the studio; suddenly, in Bad Kissingen, Germany, his birthplace...