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Robert Ulich, until recently professor of philosophy at the Higher Technical School of Dresden, and formerly Counselor in the Ministry of Education in Saxony, has been appointed a Visiting Lecturer on Comparative Education, it was announced last night at University Hall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Visiting Lecturer Appointed | 11/20/1933 | See Source »

...minutes last week a tall, hulking old man stood before the curtains at the Dresden Opera while a great German audience hocked him until it was hoarse. He was Composer Richard Strauss and Dresden, in accordance with its tradition, had put on the world premiere of another of his operas. This one was Arabella, the libretto for which had been written by Strauss's longtime collaborator, Poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal, just before he died. It concerned the daughters of a bankrupt Viennese count, the youngest of whom paraded through three acts dressed as a boy and finally ended...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss Tunefulness | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

...Dresden critics were not vexed that Strauss had returned to tunefulness. They have long ceased expecting any more daring and original music from the composer of Elektra and the tone-poems. Conducting the premiere was an illegitimate Habsburg, Clemens Krauss, instead of Hitler-ousted Fritz Busch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Strauss Tunefulness | 7/10/1933 | See Source »

Aged Karl Muck is too frail now to conduct. Wilhelm Furtwangler is in high favor with Hitler but at odds with Frau Wagner because he felt she favored Toscanini. Fritz Busch is no Jew but the Nazis took his Dresden job away from him because they felt he had Red sympathies. Leo Blech who is a Jew has been permitted to keep his Berlin State Opera post because Kaiser Wilhelm gave it to him. But it is doubtful if Chancellor Hitler will want to grant Blech any more favors. Consensus last week was that most of the Festival performances would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Bayreuth's Blight | 6/19/1933 | See Source »

Five thousand persons watched various outdoor sports at West Point last Saturday but no one watched a dozen cadets and 13 Harvardmen hunched in a West Point classroom, engaged in an abstruse brain contest. The teams were to solve ten out of eleven problems posed by President Arnold Dresden of the Mathematical Association of America. The size of the teams did not matter-the side which produced the ten best sets of answers would win. First day the teams worked over such easy matters as how many times two integral calculi go into four differential calculi. They quit early...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Brain Game | 5/29/1933 | See Source »

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