Word: nacht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When they asked him when Blitzkrieg would start, the man in Augsburg fell silent, abruptly said, "Gute Nacht (good night)," then added: "Heil Hitler!" Retorted Correspondent Cox: "Heil England! Heil Churchill...
Last week no less forceful a finger than Arturo Toscanini's reminded U. S. concertgoers of Composer Strong. Over his weekly NBC broadcast Toscanini played a strong composition called Die Nacht ("Night"). Listeners were not surprised by its musty romanticism, its able orchestration, which recalled the period of Wagner, Brahms and Schumann. But they were surprised to hear that musty U. S. Romantic Strong was still alive...
...reseat the orchestra, putting the first violins on one side, the second violins on the other, to hear two distinct voices instead of one massed tone. Next he instructed the fiddlers to make their bows move as one, whether Stokowski fussed about such things or not. The Mozart-Kleine Nacht Musik started off too delicately to suit him. "Excuse me," he shouted. "It is too fairy. Mozart was very man." He imitated perfectly the sounds he wanted from the English horn, the double bass, the flute. The men's respect mounted until some were calling him the next Toscanini...
...leave the music school where he was studying to be a violinist and composing on the side. By himself he learned to play the 'cello, went on writing music. But no one was interested until, under the spell of Wagner, he wrote Verklärte Nacht, a romantic string sextet which is still played more than any of his other pieces. At 26 he started the Gurre-Lieder but for bread & butter's sake he had to put it aside and orchestrate operetta scores. Thirteen years later the Gurre-Lieder had a big success in Vienna. People were...
...could overlook the lack of plot in "Ein Nacht im Paradies," if it had any of the qualities that in the past have made German musical-comedy films refreshing and amusing. But the photography is blurred, the parts overacted, and there is not a waltz during the whole performance...