Word: neue
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Vienna's Eduard Hanslick was the most fearless and most feared music critic of his day (1825-1904), and one of the most justly renowned of all time. Writing for the last 30 years of his career in Die Neue Freie Presse, he had contemporary subjects worthy of his talents: Franz Liszt, Clara Schumann, Anton Rubinstein, Joseph Joachim, Richard Wagner, Johannes Brahms and Giuseppe Verdi. A trained musician and respectable pianist himself, Critic Hanslick was sometimes caustic, but he was always careful. His claim was that "I never criticized a composition that I had not read or played through...
...High Commissioner John J. McCloy felt last week that it was time for Americans to say a word or two. In the High Commission's German-language Neue Zeitung appeared a blunt statement of the High Commission's views. It was addressed both to the Germans and the intransigent French...
Vienna's tiny Neue Galerie was bright last week with crude, cheery pictures of U.S. farm life, New York State style. The paintings were the work of 89-year-old "Primitive" Grandma Moses, making her first appearance before a European audience. Judging by her reception in Vienna, Grandma Moses' grand tour through The Hague, Berne, and Paris will be something of a triumph...