Word: johann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wiener Blut," a romance of the beloved Johann Strauss and his immortal music opens at the Fine Arts Theatre Thursday...
...pious German named Johann Conrad Beissel emigrated to Pennsylvania, gathered about him a small sect called Seventh Day Baptists. At Ephrata, near Lancaster, Pa., he built a big three-story cloister which he named "The Sharon." Into this cloister with his male & female followers he retired to pursue the spiritual ideal of the "Woman of the Wilderness." Changing his name to Father Friedsam "The Peaceful," Beissel was the first prior of the Ephrata Community.* He was followed by big Peter Miller, called "Jabez." The community grew to 300. After the Battle of Brandywine nearby, 500 wounded Continentals were nursed...
education for her child, Johann, who at an early age gives excellent promise of becoming as sure a musician as his worldly father. He has his triumph in 1844 when he succeeds in swaying Vienna more than had his father in his debut eighteen years before. Son is like father in many respects but he never forgets the debt he owes to the self-sacrificing mother who is at once the most human and the most herioc person in the biography. Mr. Ewen presents the contemporary life of the musician very factually; he considers the European tours of both...
...inhabitants of the island will hear a varied program, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, consisting of Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave" overture, "Tales from a Vienna Wood," by Johann Strauss, the "Dance Trepak" from Tschaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite, and the first movement of the Bach D Minor Concerto for two violins and string orchestra. The solo part for this last piece will be played by George K. Mateyo '34, and Austin Ivory...
...thousands knows anything about the able Swedish Governor who established the first permanent seat of Government in Pennsylvania and did it before William Penn was born." Thus writes C. Hale Sipe, lawyer-historian-lecturer of Butler, Pa. The able Swede was an adipose lieutenant-colonel named Johann Printz who arrived in New Sweden in 1642, built a state house which existed for 160 years in what is now Pennsylvania. Johann Printz is only one of many historical characters for whose recognition in the schools C. Hale Sipe has crusaded. In his lectures and books (The Indian Chiefs of Pennsylvania...