Word: mainz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...symphonies Symphonische Tänze and Die Harmonic der Welt) has established him as Germany's greatest living composer. But, at 67, he has not lost his ironic touch. He was still exercising it last week as he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Der Mainzer Umzug (The Mainz Procession), a new work that may rank with his very best...
Quirky Themes. Commissioned by the city of Mainz to celebrate its 2,000th anniversary, Hindemith's new cantata is scored for three vocal soloists, a chorus and orchestra, and is based on the Fastnacht, or pre-Lenten festival, for which Mainz is famous. The text, partly by Hindemith and partly by Playwright Carl Zuckmayer, has the soprano and tenor soloists singing only in Mainzer dialect while the baritone sings in high German. Soprano and tenor are supposed to be watching an imaginary Fastnacht procession passing before them as they face the audience, and in the roles of low comics...
...system, created by Aloys Kennerknecht, professor of stenography at the interpreters' school of Mainz University, is a variation of the Pitman method based on sound rather than orthography...
Rome last week bustled with preparations for this opening ceremony. In a hall on the Via della Conciliazione, the 41 priests and seminarians selected as stenographers for the council struggled to master a special Latin shorthand devised by Professor Aloys Kennerknecht of Mainz University. Inside the nave of St. Peter...
Centuries of Bad Dreams. Later that same year, at Mainz, De Gaulle declared: "We proceed from the same race; we are Europeans, men of the West. How many reasons for us to stand by one another henceforward!" In another speech at Koblenz, he added: "Time will go by and wounds will be healed, but the wounds are deep and the healing time will be long." At a gala gathering in Freiburg, De Gaulle summed up his thoughts...