Word: maler
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer of 1934 Germany's Nazi Kulturkammer (Chamber of Culture), enraged by a much-publicized performance of Paul Hindemith's modernistic, juiceless, but adept suite, Mathis der Maler, declared its composer a pernicious Kulturbolschewist (cultural Bolshevist). Despite a plea by Germany's star conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler, who had introduced the work at a Berlin concert, Composer Hindemith's compositions were officially banned from German concert programs. Conductor Furtwängler resigned his job in protest, cried: "It is a crime to attempt to defame and drive him [Hindemith] from Germany, since none...
Critics paid most attention to ultra-modern Paul Hindemith's Mathis der Maler, a symphony supposed to describe a triptych painted by Mathias Grünewald in the 16th Century. Hindemith in writing it had worked himself into a mystical mood, produced occasional passages of eerie loveliness. Critics praised his craftsmanship, his few concessions to melody. Laymen were glad for intermission, impatient for January, Toscanini & Beethoven...
...story goes that the First Man of the land throwing caution to the winds and disregarding the horrible example of the 1919 White Sox, deliberately ordered the team representing his Alma Maler to toss a few games overboard while guests of the land of the cherry blossoms...
...Althouse '34, J.L. Brodrich '35, H.S. Derrickson '35, W.M. Evans '35, H.B. Garrignes '34, R.H. Heindel '33, J.S. Lang '35, E.B. Lee, Jr. '34, C.R. Leech '34, W.R. Lessig, Jr. '34, John Maler '34, H.S. Miller '35, S.A. Polik '34, E.H. Rigg '34, R.W. Turner ;33, A.D. Willow '33, G.D. Zimmerinan...
...loyal Columbia students wipe eggs and tomatoes off the statue of Alma Maler, in the course of rioting following the expulsion of a student editor, three issues stand out: the justice of the editor's criticism of the John Jay dining halls, the justice of his expulsion, and the attitude which University administrators should maintain towards undergraduate editors...