Word: ein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Places. In spite of its truculent attitude toward U.N., Israel went ahead with preparations to receive pilgrims. On the Israel side visitors will see such Christian shrines as the Dormition of Mary on Mount Zion, the Cenacle where the Last Supper was spread, the Ein Karim home of John the Baptist, and Nazareth...
...Rosenkavalier, Strauss thought was consistently misunderstood and misplayed. Instead of "a vulgar monster with a horrible make-up and proletarian manners," as most bassos represented him, Strauss intended him as "a rustic beau, a Don Juan of some 35 years, but nevertheless a nobleman . . . Inwardly he is gross (ein Schmutzian), but outwardly he remains quite presentable . . . Above all, his first scene in the bedroom must be played with extreme delicacy and discretion, it must not be repulsive ... In short, Viennese comedy, not Berlin farce...
...composer who could "mold a beautiful or touching or heroic tonal image, and then distort it by scrawling a bad joke somewhere on its surface." He was a man who composed a great symphonic poem about his own sometimes mean and usually money-grabbing life and called it Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life...
Both sides were confident enough to take those risks. The month of truce had given Israel time to organize its half-formed army more thoroughly. Fighting with their backs to the sea, the Jews were telling each other last week: "Our secret weapon is ein brera" [no alternative]. Some Arab statements were tempered with a new note of caution. "Of course we're confident," said the Arab League Secretary General, Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. "The trouble is that some people expect spectacular results right away, but it isn't that kind of a fight. It is a guerrilla...
Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A wag once tried to describe this fustian piece: "It is he, the Hero, and he has been drinking again. He is in E flat, and his cuffs are soiled by numerous dissonances . . . Four plain-clothes detectives come in on a sharp glissando, and, seizing the Hero, throw over his head a dark-tasting chord . . ." Performance: good. Suite from Der Rosenkavalier (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Some of the pleasantest music Richard Strauss ever wrote, pleasingly played. Recordings: good...