Word: germanization
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heads out the windows and shook threatening fists. He was a baby then, just a pianist. At six he was composing; at 19 he was a conductor and his neighbors forgave him, went way to Halle to hear him lead the opera there. He took his training in one German opera house after another, washed himself in Wagnerian fire, came in 1902 to Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...stayed at the Metropolitan through the "Golden Age" when Gadski, Nordica, the de Reszkes, David Bispham and Schumann-Heink were making German music, when Fritzi Scheff was the bait for tired starched magnates, when berthas and hourglass figures were the fashion...
...that his imagination might not be blurred, his initiative eventually retarded" he left the Metropolitan, took over the San Francisco Orchestra for $10,000 a year. There followed months of strife. Friends of the Hadley régime refused to accept him, called him "pro-German," made others suspect. He saw, heard, spoke no evil, swung his great bulk onto the platform, turned his back, hung his cane on the rail before him and made big music till the Cort Theatre was too small and his neighbors forgave him. Now at 55 he has the energy...
...play, Hamlet's greeting to his college mate Horatio was: "But what, in faith, make you from Wittenberg?" At that German university Martin Luther taught philosophy in 1508. Hamlet, before his father's murder had muddled his feelings and emotions, had spent happy undergraduate semesters there. He longed to return. But his uncle-stepfather* urged: "For your intent in going back to school in Wittenberg, it is most retrograde to our desire; and we beseech you, bend you to remain here, in the cheer and comfort of our eye, our chiefest courtier, cousin, and our son." His mother...
Oldtime Wittenberg no longer exists. It was merged in 1815 with the University of Halle. The school buildings, great stone piles, are used now as barracks for German infantry troops...