Word: eugen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...masterpiece. All that remains, then, in discussing the movie, is the quality of the adaptation and the performance of the music. The music, played by the Berlin State Orchestra, is lacking in vivacity and occasionally in clarity, but it is passable. The singing, especially that of Erna Berger and Eugen Fuchs, is excellent...
Crosses for the Captain. Erwin Johannes Eugen Rommel, son of a Württemberg schoolmaster, was a professional soldier and a good one from the start. At 20, he was graduated from the War Academy at Danzig and commissioned a second lieutenant in the infantry. Two years later, in August 1914, he went into action in France. Says Biographer Young: "From the moment that he first came under fire he stood out as the perfect fighting animal, cold, cunning, ruthless, untiring, quick of decision, incredibly brave." Rommel emerged from World War I with only the rank of captain...
...seats) Theater an der Wien was packed. And Vienna was particularly pleased to see that the first two right-hand rows were solid with Russians who cheered with everybody else. It was not greatly surprising that the Russians had come-after all, the opener was Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin, a longtime Russian favorite. The surprise was that they had joined inwith hearty applause for tall, dark-voiced U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (TIME, Jan. 9), who sang the title role...
...bittersweet impudence of her second book of verse, A Few Figs from Thistles ("Safe upon the solid rock the ugly houses stand: Come and see my shining palace built upon the sand!"), she caught the popular ear, tasted fame. In 1923 she won a Pulitzer Prize and married Eugen Jan Boissevain, a wealthy importer. As her fame and royalties grew, her verse became milder, milkier and more conventionally romantic. In 1927, her The King's Henchman (score by Deems Taylor) was the Met's opera of the year and her published libretto went through four editions...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jo-chum conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides LP). Bruckner himself called this work his "Tragic Symphony"; the tragedy is that he did not make it a little shorter and less repetitious. Performance and recording: fair...