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...Heinrich Hagenbeck (Hagenbeck Circus, Hagenbeck Zoo) completed last week his advisory remodelling of the Detroit and Toledo zoos, sailed for Hamburg. Said he: "The U. S. has the rarest collection of animals in the world...
...Heinrich Hertz (1857-94) discovered electro-magnetic waves. Light was realized to be an electro-magnetic phenomenon...
Prompt to the dot of 10 a. m., the one-time German Court Chaplain, Dr. Heinrich Vogel, preached a sermon extolling the "Christlike qualities of the Emperor." The text had been supplied by Wilhelm II (Roman...
...does not enjoy fully either Chopin's music, or Herr Johannsen's play: the first because the music was almost wholly written for the pianoforte, not orchestra with voices, and was supposed to be played at the tempo originally indicated; the second because the incongruity of seeing Heinrich Heine and Giacomo Meyerbeer cavorting about the stage, not to mention George Sand fainting and a rather picturesque but wholly unconvincing ending to the whole, strikes a false note. Perhaps, if one could look upon the production as purely imaginary, if one could forget the historical and musical associations which the dramatis...
Last week La Campana Sommersa, the music by Ottorino Respighi to a libretto by Claudio Guastalla taken from Hauptmann's play, had its U. S. premiere at the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Rautendelein was still its inspiration, Heinrich still the heckled human. And for it all Respighi had made lovely, lyric music. But operatic singers, operatic trappings rarely enhance a poetic mood. Soprano Elisabeth Rethberg as Rautendelein managed her bulk skillfully, sang difficult music easily, spent clear high notes' lavishly. But her appearance, her acting left little illusion. Nor could Giovanni Martinelli forget he was a tenor...