Word: friedrich
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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President Friedrich Ebert of Germany received representatives of the Allen Relief Committee, the Quaker Relief Mission and the U. S. Press, and asked them to express Germany's gratitude to the American people for their succor of starving German children...
...been forgotten. It may be only a coincidence that at the same time that the name of the fiery old Grand Admiral von Tirpitz is mentioned for chancellorship by the German Nationalist Party, news of a peculiarly pacific character is circulated on the doings of the erstwhile Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, the figure-head of the Monarchists, who is said to have enrolled for a series of agricultural lectures at Breslau University...
...Friedrich Wilhelm's sudden passion for the soil may of course be nothing but one of the whims which from time to time disturb the peace of mind of royalty. Yet from the fact that he has frequently found it necessary to motor as far as Berlin in order to have his teeth attended, although Brealau cannot be wholly barren of dentists, he may be suspected of cloaking the usual ambition of dispossessed princes beneath his present agricultural activities...
...Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, Carl Maria Friedrich Ernest von Weber's Der Freischüts was subjected to a revival. This opera, first produced in 1821, is perhaps the ultimate word in heavy German Romanticism. It is a tale of love, of shooting, of dense, dismal forests, of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, satanic spells and supernatural apparitions, ghastly, eerie, gruesome, horrible. But its moral tone is pure and lovely...
...score. To this libretto, the amazing concoction of one Friedrich Kind, Weber wrote a score that combines the simple tunefulness of the folksong and the Bavarian yodel with the brilliancy of the concert hall. It contains also demoniac bombast and eerie "agits" which would be dear to the heart of any cinema organist. Its first Viennese success was tremendous. Weber himself wrote in his diary: "Greater enthusiasm there cannot be, and I tremble to think of the future, for it is scarcely possible to rise higher than this. To God alone the praise...