Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Munich's Gauleiter, Herr Giesler, put his spies to work and arrested three "ringleaders," Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst. They were described as typische Einzelganger (typical individual cranks), tried before a Nazi People's Court, found guilty of spreading defeatism and "encouraging sabotage in our armaments by means of leaflets...
...that the outside world knew on Feb. 22 was that Hans and Maria Scholl and Adrian Probst had been beheaded. Since then other Munich citizens have laid their heads on the block before a white-gloved axman: Kurt Huber, a professor of psychology for 17 years; a lad who exchanged a leg at Stalingrad for the Iron Cross, First Class; at least nine other students. By last week it was apparent that the Nazis were worried. There were more arrests at Munich and a close watch on students at the schools. No one outside Germany could tell for certain...
Cruft Officers night at Pops Sunday was even bigger and better than last year. As Jesus Maria San Roma, the famous pianist, sat, fingers poised over the keys and Fieldler lifted his baton, and the whole audience sat hushed and intent on listening to Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto Number 2 in C Minor, "Pop!" went the cork of a champagne botite. A giggle gained momentum as it spread throughout Symphony Hall...
Friday Evening, May 28 Overture: Poet and Peasantvon Suppe Suite from "Rodeo" Copland Warsaw Concerto Addinsell (Piano: Leo Litwin) Brazil Barroso Saturday Evening, May 29 Overture: "Russian and Ludmilla" Glinka Concerto in F Gershwin (Piano: Jesus Maria Sanroma) Suite from Ballet: "Sylvia" Delibes Prelude to "The Deluge" Saint-Saons "On the Trail," from Grand Canyon Suite Grofe Sunday Evening, May 30 No concert
Dominated by Mexico, the exhibition had about 246 square feet of Muralists Diego Maria Rivera and José Clemente Orozco alone. There were also many small drawings and lithographs by younger, lesser known Mexicans who revealed at least as much imagination and power of draftsmanship as their elder, more celebrated countrymen. With their elders, they shared modern Mexican art's preoccupation with violence and deformity, both inward and outward...