Word: nuremberg
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Zimmermann, Director of the Nuremberg Germanic Museum, and Mrs. Zimmermann, were the guests yesterday of Professor Adolph Goldschmidt, visiting lecturer on Fine Arts and the History of German Culture. Dr. Zimmermann is visiting leading American museums for the first time, and is also visiting many private art collections in this country...
...Zimmermann studied under Professor Goldschmidt in Halle-Wittenberg University, Germany, and by reason of his connection with the Germanic Museum in Nuremberg, which contains the originals of many works of art duplicated at the University, was keenly interested in the Germanic Museum. The New Fogg Museum was described by Dr. Zimmermann as the finest new museum building he has seen. Dr. Zimmermann pointed out that the Nuremberg Goose-Man, a cast of which stands in the foremost of the Germanic Museum here, is not available for any museum, as it is kept in a public square of Nuremberg...
Another reproduction which attracted Dr. Zimmermann's attention was the cast of the Nuremberg Madonna, the original wooden statue of which, made in the work-shop of Peter Vischer, is conceded to be the finest early German sculpture, and is in the Nuremberg Germanic Museum...
...tonight in Symphony Hall at 8.15 o'clock under the direction of the new conductor, Alfredo Casella. Their program tonight will be: Prelude to "Carmen" Bizet Two Marches Schubert Arranged for orchestra by Casella First performance in America "Fountains of Rome," Symphonic Poem Respighi Prelude to "The Mastersingers of Nuremberg" Wagner Overture to "Cinderella" Rossini Three Dances from "Othella" Verdi "Italia" Rhapeody Casella Indian War Dance Skitton Valse Triste Stbelius Caprice on Spanish Themes Rimsky-Korsakov
...poets have been more celebrated in song and story than Hans Sachs the shoemaker Meistersinger of Nuremberg. Though his fame rests principally on a comparatively small number of his inimitably sweet songs, he was nevertheless an extraordinarily fertile poet. According to his own account he had, ten years before his death, composed 4275 Meisterlieder, 1700 tales and fables in verse, and 203 dramas, surely a stupendous production in any case...