Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After two years of Haydn-go-seek, H. C. Robbins Landon, one of the society's founders, writes in the Saturday Review of Literature: "It is (unfortunately) more profitable today to issue a symphony on records under Haydn's name than under the correct title of [say] Johann Rasper Ferdinand Gluggl, and it was just as profitable for an 18th Century publisher to follow this same course...
...enthusiastic audience of 500 heard. Delaney's work as the central piece in a program of choral music. Other works included Cantatas No. 61 and 118 by Johann Sebastian Bach. Two Choruses from Jephtha" by Geroge Frederick Handel, Two Cantiones Cacrae by J. P. Sweelinck, and The Last Words of David by Randall Thompson...
...pontoon stage on a quiet inlet of the Rhine, bleachers ashore for 3,000 spectators and snack bars plastered with Coca-Cola signs. It promotes itself as "The City of the Operetta Festival." The single operetta to be staged all this summer: a jazzed-up version of Johann Strauss the Younger's A Thousand and One Nights...
Conventional student concerts usually include a fast, land overture, an isolated movement from an isolated symphony, a Stephen Foster medley, and a waltz by Johann Strauss. The inevitable "small but enthusiastic" audience consists of members of the faculty, parents of the performers, and a handful of erstwhile Babbitts searching for culture...
Contacted last night director Johann Wolfgang Schneider, world-famous blower and Bock enthusiast, said that his band would render everything it could lay its hands on. "We'll tear through Souse and Schlitz with equal fervor," he said, "and anything else we can see--which won't be much...