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Word: austria (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Seventeen of the 79 singers are new this season and several of them richly deserved their appointments. Philadelphia's Dusolina Giannini has had great success in Germany and Austria. Australian Marjorie Lawrence has been a rage in Paris. Contralto Gertrud Wettergren is a favorite in her native Sweden. Tenor Charles Kullman (Yale, 1924) has done well for himself in Europe, as has Soprano Susanne Fischer of Sutton, W. Va., who will make her Metropolitan debut as Madame Butterfly. Two of the newcomers are Belgians : Tenor René Maison and Basso Hubert Raidich. Baritone Carlo Morelli is a Chilean, Eduard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Era | 12/23/1935 | See Source »

...other item besides the news is really refreshing. It is called "Skiing in Austria", and is good enough to have been held over from last week. There are some shots of dazzling winter scenery, and the skiing tingles with exhilaration...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/19/1935 | See Source »

...episodic outline. But Berg's music was not to be discounted. Murky, rumbly drums actually suggested an evil, brooding power. The entire orchestra chattered over one gruesome death, grew lyrical when the composer wanted sympathy for his heroine, reached an awful climax when Lulu was slain. Austria's Alban Berg is one of the few real modernists who has been able to write effective theatre music, subduing atonality and the twelve-tone scale to a truly urgent feeling. Critics were unable to agree on Lulu's worth last week. Olin Downes of the New York Times pronounced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Provocative Lulu | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

...George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy's sedate Burlington House, along with other Chinese treasures from collections in the U. S., France, Holland, Sweden, Germany, Japan, Turkey, Austria, Egypt, the City of Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Stream of Beauty | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

Papal nunciatures which automatically lead to the College are those to Spain, France, Austria, Poland; thus red hats to their four nuncios-Monsignor Federico Tedeschini, Monsignor Luigi Maglione, Monsignor Enrico Sibilia, Monsignor Francesco Marmaggi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Twenty Red Hats | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

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