Word: johanne
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through Switzerland in the early 1800s, many a notable-among them Talleyrand and Madame de Stael-made a point of stopping at Yverdon. There, in an old castle, lived scores of waifs and orphans under the care of a gentle old man they all called "Father." His real name: Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi...
...rare-book department of Charles Scribner's Sons announced a rare find: a nearly perfect edition of the Bible printed by Johann Gutenberg some 500years ago. Discovered in an English home, the best edition turned up this century brings the known copies to 46. The last sale of a Gutenberg...
...already livened up the staid old Metropolitan Opera with an infusion of vitamins, last week gave the Met a shot of champagne-and one of the greatest triumphs of its 67 years. For his third new production of the season, he resurrected that bubbly old favorite, Die Fledermaus, of Johann Strauss (the Younger), which had not been heard at the Met since 1905. As he had with Verdi's Don Carlo (TIME, Nov. 13), Bing rechristened it with just the right flourish by enlisting some bright new help imported from Broadway for the occasion...
...reportoire, vary its style, and to concentrate basically on further exploration of classical choral work. Simultaneously, and on the light side, the programs of the Club drew on the vast literature of folk songs, the glees and catches of the eighteenth century, and the gay operettas of Offenbach, Johann Strauss, and Gilbert and Sillivan...
...next new production, due in December: Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus, staged by Broadway and Hollywood's topnotch director, Garson Kanin...