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...Gustav Adolf, Crown Prince of Sweden, will receive an honorary degree from the University during his coming visit to the United States...
...came out of it with reactions exactly opposite to those of the Führer. While Hitler toiled and finally succeeded in awakening German militarism to fresh and grandiose efforts, Ossietsky labored as the editor of the German pacifist Weltbühne. The late, great German Nobel Peaceman Dr. Gustav Stresemann said that without Ossietsky's preparatory work he should never have been able to carry out his policy of rapprochement with French Nobel Peace-man Aristide Briand...
...living in London, Franz Peter Schubert's grandniece talks easily of how, when a student, she heard Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
...GUSTAV MAHLER: ICH BIN DER WELT ABHANDEN GEKOMMEN (Contralto Kerstin Thorborg and Vienna Philharmonic; Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia). A beautiful item added to the meagre list of available Mahler discs...
...boisterous clatter that had marred his earlier "May Day" Symphony (No. 3). returned to the vitality and sincerity of the First Symphony which made him famous ten years ago. Dominant influences observable in it were not those of post-War modernists but of such romantic symphonists as the late Gustav Mahler...