Word: muniched
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...plot to re-establish the monarchy in Bavaria was nipped in the bud by the Munich police. The royalists' plans provided for the detachment of Bavaria from the rest of the Reich and the formation of a South German Federation to include Austria. French influence is said to have favored the reactionist plot. Upward of 70 people were arrested...
...York Symphony Orchestra exhibited in its concerts of last Thursday afternoon and Friday evening, a new guest conductor. He was Bruno Walter, of much reputation in Germany, where he conducts the Munich Opera. Walter is especially renowned as a conductor of Mozart. He directed the symphony in D of the Salzburg composer. It would not be too rash to state outright that it was the finest Mozart conducting to be heard in the world today. Walter very sensibly cut down the orchestra to eighteenth century propositions. He achieved an exquisite balance of tone. It was no case of the huge...
...explain the smile on the face of Da Vinci's famous portrait. The prologue and epilogue present a young wife with her old husband, sight-seeing in Florence. Both parts are taken by newcomers to the Metropolitan - Barbara Kemp, of the Berlin Opera, and Michael Bohnen, of the Munich Opera. The roles are dual. In the two acts of the piece they appear as Mona Lisa and her husband, in a story told by a young monk (Mr. Taucher), who impersonates also Mona Lisa's youthful lover, whom she had been forced to discard to marry Francesco...
...occupation of the left bank Rhine. They have followed the old example of Cardinal Richelieu, who allied himself even with the Protestants in Germany to break up any possible union, because he considered the Protestants weaker than the Catholics and more favorable toward the French. Thus he set Munich against Berlin, and Bavaria against Prussia...
...interest, the Fogg Art Museum is now showing in its Gallery a small painting by Fra Angelico. The painting is doubtless one of a series of panels which formerly formed the predella to the San Marco Altarpiece. Other of these predella panels are in the Academy at Florence; in Munich; in the National Gallery, Dublin; and in the Louvre. The panels represent scenes from the lives of St. Cosmo and St. Damian. The scene portrayed in the panel now at the Fogg Museum doubtless represents the "lady which had spent all her goods in medicines, and come to these saints...