Word: johannes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Second are the vast majority of church organists who cannot bear the cinemorgans but will make discreet use of the variously colored "romantic" effects possible on all modern-style organs. Third are the growing number of classicists, who favor the 17th-Century style of organ used by the great Johann Sebastian Bach - and who make modern-style organs sound as much as possible like Bach organs, or play instruments made on 17th-Century lines...
Almost immediately he landed a comic refugee bit part in something called Cue for Passion. Knowing hardly a word of English, Karlweis learned his lines "like a parrot," got wonderful notices. He got them again as the Prince in the enormously successful revival of Johann Strauss's Rosalinda (Die Fledermaus). By then his English was fine. Chuckles he slyly: "As the French say, 'The pillow is the best teacher...
...jaunty, bow-tied, küss-die-hand Viennese who has charm off stage as well as on, and knows it, Karlweis was bred to old-world culture. His father, a friend of Johann Strauss's, was a well known playwright; his sister married the late great novelist Jakob Wassermann (The World's Illusion). World War I, in which Karlweis was cited four times for bravery, picked him up a law student, set him down an actor. By the mid-'20s he was playing in Vienna, Munich and Berlin opposite a flowering Elisabeth Bergner, a budding Marlene...
Bruckner loved food, beer (as many as 13 seidels of Pilsener at a sitting), and the waltzes of Johann Strauss. His favorite reading matter was the Bible and a life of Napoleon, whom he enormously respected. He had a dim-witted love of titles, once sent a letter to the University of Pennsylvania offering it the dedication of his Fourth Symphony in return for a doctor's degree. When his offer was ignored, he fell into the hands of a swindler, whom he paid a considerable sum to wangle him a degree from the University of Cincinnati...
...Mozart: Concerto No. 12 (K.414) for Piano and Orchestra (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Louis Kentner; Columbia; 6 sides). First U.S. release of a European recording of one of Mozart's most ingratiating concertos. Performance: fair. Recording: good. Johann Strauss: Blue Danube Waltz (NBC Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor). A fascinating illustration of a great conductor's weakness. Maestro Toscanini's Danube is a swift torrent of molten lava. Recording: fair...