Word: mendelssohn
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...bridegroom's friends, has often cost enough to run the couple into debt for life. Chinese bankers, who have battened on such marriages for centuries, gnawed their lips in rage last week as Mayor Wu hired an elegant brass band which blared the "Wedding March" of "Foreign Devil" Mendelssohn...
...pleasant to walk airily up Holyoke Street these brisk spring mornings, once again convinced that the world is essentially round, and its Creator in His appointed place. Humming a measure or two from Mendelssohn, one crosses Mt. Auburn Street, headed Yard-wards. But as one's gaze falls on the new University Parking Place, the smile of joy is likely to vanish from one's face...
Fortnight ago Nazi Germany lost its last great musician when Wilhelm Furtwangler resigned his posts with the Reich Chamber of Music, the Berlin State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. He left in a rage of resentment because the Government had banned the music of long-dead Jew Mendelssohn, had tabooed the works of Composer Paul Hindemith. Head music man in Vienna is Conductor Clemens Krauss, who last week accepted Herr Furtwangler's job with the Berlin State Opera. In exchange Vienna wanted Furtwangler but the German conductor excused himself on the grounds of ill-health and exhaustion. The real...
...Felix Mendelssohn was a composer who honored Germany with his music. But Felix Mendelssohn was also a Jew. Last week his statue was removed from the Municipal Theatre in Diisseldorf and Herr Dr. Alfred Rosenberg, as "spiritual adviser" of the German people, issued an order for other German composers to try to write music for Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream...
...their modern dialects in North India and Persia. Max Muller, though not at all out of sympathy with the budding doctrine of Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became a naturalized Briton, died at last, in the fullness of years and honors...