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...TIME, Sept. 18, p. 62, you published an article entitled "Gott Sez Mit [/MS" containing the following false statement concerning me, namely...
...World War I, Kaiser Wilhelm-who has since become a dilettante theologian ,nd preacher to his household-called upon his God so often that Gott Mit Uns ("God with us") became an international joke. On the Allied side, however, plenty of preachers dragged the deity into the war; some of them lived to apologize...
...with us [Gott sei mit uns] as He was with our Father...
...Music. (This season's tickets were all sold out two hours after they were placed on sale.) As a special treat Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...