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...surging and retreating of the three-part rhythm, and the rollicking gaiety that eddies in its midst, make one think that he was born anywhere from eighty to twenty years too late. There may have been war in 1839 between Joseph Lanner and Johann Strauss, the waltz-king and the brilliant rebel, but that war had more melody and harmony than a hundred years of our stodgy peace. At any rate, open dissension is boiling away at the very moment when Sir Philip, Superintendent of the Court of Balls, emissary of Queen Victoria, arrives in Vienna to choose the best...
...Greene '96 The Pierian Sodality Overture to "Iphigenia in Aulis" Gluck Glee Club Diffusa est gratia (Motet) Nanino Tutti Venite armati(Villanella) Gastoldi Address: "Harvard, Present and Future" President Conant Glee Club Harvard Hymn Paine The Pierian Sodality Menuetto: Allegro molte (Symphony I) Beethoven Turmmusik for Brass Instruments Johann Pezel Intrada-Allemande-Courante_Courante-Sarabande-Bal-Gigue Danse Espagnole, from "La Vida Breve" de Falla Glee Club Praestat hoc nobis Chadwick
...cold, calm February night in 1865, the members of a little science society gathered in the town of Brünn, Austria, to hear a paper on inheritance in plants by an Augustinian monk from the nearby monastery. Gregor Johann Mendel wore a long, black coat and his trousers were tucked into his high boots. He was a plump, genial man with bright, blue eyes...
...Mendel communicated to the Brünn Society for the Study of Natural Science. None of his hearers seemed much interested and none asked questions. For 35 years the paper lay buried in the society's transactions. There is no evidence that Charles Darwin ever heard of Gregor Johann Mendel...
With the Allied rejections in his pocket, Secretary Lansing put up a stern, uncompromising front when Germany's Ambassador Count Johann Heinrich von Bernstorff called at his office one day late in April 1916. A stenographer set down their conversation verbatim. Excerpts...