Word: johann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quai d'Anjou, where the painter lived. A few hundred yards farther down the river, Paris' crowded Pont Neuf, the city's oldest bridge despite its name, was painted by Girtin, Renoir, Pissarro. A farewell was paid to Paris by several artists, among them the Dutchman Johann Barthold Jongkind, with a lovely view of Notre Dame towering over the river barges...
...civilization consists of consonances variously interspersed with dissonances. But throughout musical history the dissonances have shown a tendency to crowd the consonances out. In the 16th Century Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, who composed the greatest of all Catholic liturgical music, expressed himself almost entirely in consonances. But 18th-Century Johann Sebastian Bach, a product of the more individualistic Protestant Reformation, used dissonances liberally, especially in his impassioned, emotional moments. And 19th-Century Richard Wagner, whose individualism bordered on egomania, laid dissonances on with a trowel...
Robert Miller '46 will play a cello concerto by Johann Braun, a violinist virtuoso and contemporary of Mozart. The music shares the common failing of virtuoso-composed concerti, a lack of organic give and take between solo instrument and orchestra, but it is very pleasant to listen to. For the most part, Miller plays like a veteran, and when a Freshman undertakes to play what an 18th century virtuoso wrote to display his own technique, it would be foolish to cavil at small lapses of pitch or phrasing...
...months the lilting waltzes of Chocolate Soldier, The Merry Widow, Gypsy Baron, Beggar Student and Fledermaus have drawn throngs of moist-eyed listeners to Carnegie Hall and the Lewisohn Stadium. Produced in German by troupes of Viennese refugees, or in English by personable companies of youthful U.S. singers, Johann Strauss, Karl Millocker and Franz Lehar have played to packed houses for weeks at a time...
Last week Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus (The Bat), considered by many to be the greatest of all operettas, bubbled out of the high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss...