Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Josef Krips, a vain but capable musician, is a man pursued by governments...
...Adolf Hitler's Germany, Sculptor Josef Thorak had a big job: official sculptor of the Third Reich. His huge statuary was to decorate the squares and public buildings of the city that Hitler was to make the "thousand-year capital" of the Reich. To house Thorak's enormous work in preparation, some of it six stories high and weighing 1,000 tons, the Führer built him a studio as high and wide as a Zeppelin hangar. When the job proved to be insecure, Sculptor Thorak retired to semiobscurity in Bavaria...
Married. Libeth Adenauer, 22, youngest daughter of West Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer; and Hermann Josef Werhahn, 26, son of a Ruhr banker; at Maria Laach, Germany...
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides LP). Vienna's Conductor Krips has a wonderful way with the pulse and pace of Mozart's operas; playing the "Jupiter" with style and finish, he shows he knows how to handle the symphonies too. Recording: excellent...
...auditorium of the Clarksville, Ark. high school, an audience of 1,600 applauded enthusiastically as Vienna-born Conductor Josef Blatt stepped onstage to conduct a concert of the Arkansas State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor Blatt faced the audience, beet-red with embarrassment: "This is one of those things that happens once in a million times. The orchestra is here. I am here. But we left every scrap of our music in Little Rock . . . there will be no concert." Then he promised to bring the orchestra back two days later-with the music...