Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such hair-raisers seemed a little out of plumb when 20,000 Czechs set out for the funeral of Czech Policeman Johann Mueller, killed by Germans last week. To his funeral the Czech Unity Party sent a crown of thorns. But when the jittery Czech Government (with concurrence of the Protector) called the rites off, the 20,000 Czechs went quietly home...
...Johann Gregor Mendel (1822-84) was a quiet Moravian monk, who discovered the laws of inheritance by puttering with peas. He showed, for example, that if a "dominant" yellow pea is bred to a "recessive" green pea, all the first generation peas will be yellow, and three out of four of the second (if bred together) will be yellow and one green. This ratio always holds in breeding a dominant to a recessive. At the dawn of the 20th Century, Mendel's laws were dug up and made the basis of the science of genetics, which was also boosted...
...Director Jones, big test of the two-day festival was the five-hour B Minor Mass. Composed about 1738, when Johann Sebastian Bach was in the plenitude of his powers, it is the only Catholic mass written by the Lutheran composer.* Bach chose the form because its complexity gave adequate play to his technical resources and expression to his love of God. For many years performed nowhere in the U. S. but at Bethlehem, it is now an annual climax to other choir seasons, is perhaps the most famous liturgical choral work in existence...
...good musical. The plot, alone, places the cast in a hopeless situation, an obstacle they don't even try to surmount. For the climax, there is a dizzy succession of pits, cliffs, instruments, masks, "Lonely Hearts," and Jeanette MacDonald. It features the music of a mad genius, a combination "Johann Strauss, Becthoven, Richard Strauss, Bach, Brahms," and Walt Disney...
That was not necessary. But one night last week, in the Nicollet Hotel's ballroom, Conductor Mitropoulos and his men played a concert of musical burlesques and waltzes by Johann Strauss. Then, sure enough, they did pass the hat-to some 400 of Minneapolis' solider citizens. Into it dropped $20,000 and promises that the Minneapolis Symphony's annual guarantee fund of $130,000 would be fully subscribed for the next two years...