Word: german
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...courses in French and German which fulfill the reading requirement are now taken by the majority for that purpose alone...
...widened their perspective of it by acquaintance with languaged of other nations? Or if this angle of the subject is too remote to penetrate the recesses of your obtuse reuses, then consider but the economic aspect. Have you no hearts? Would'st rob our struggling instructors in French and German of their sole means of livelihood? Vision a typical pathetic case it your diabolical propaganda were allowed to take root, which God forbid...
With regret operagoers heard last week that Arthur Bodanzky, conductor of German Opera at the Metropolitan since 1915, will resign at the end of the season. Conductor Bodanzky wants his time for the Friends of Music Society, for festivals abroad. His place at the Metropolitan will be taken by Joseph Rosenstock, now at the State Opera in Wiesbaden...
...early as 1914 there was talk of Jeritza's coming to the U. S. Otto Kahn had heard her in Europe. So had Mr. Gatti. But then came the War. Vienna stayed German and the Metropolitan Opera went Italian. Jeritza was married-to Baron Leopold Popper de Podraghy,* one of the wealthiest industrialists of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, turned soldier for his Emperor. She herself sang at the front, worked in a hospital. Not until the fall of 1921 did she come to the Metropolitan...
...opera was Korngold's Tote Stadt, the first given in German after the War. The curtain was five minutes late and the Metropolitan curtain is never late. Patrons wondered. None knew the fault was the new soprano's, so frightened backstage that no sound would come from her throat. She ate some pineapple. She crossed herself once, ten times. Manager Gatti whispered encouragement. The curtain went up and Jeritza made her debut. With her singing and her acting she was a sensation...