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Bach's Suite No. 2 in B Minor for strings and flute; Mozart's C Major ("Jupiter") Symphony; Beethoven's Fifth; Brahms's First; Schumann's Third ("Rhenish"); Shostakovich's Fifth; Cesar Franck's Symphony in D Minor; Richard Strauss's Till Eulens pie gel's Merry Pranks; Stravinsky's Petrouchka; Debussy's Afternoon of a Faun...
...Papens are Erbsälzer, Hereditary Salters of Werl & Neuwerk, an honor which in medieval days assured them a fine hereditary income. This they augmented in cruder capitalist times by discreet ties with those Rhenish Schlotbaronen (smokestack barons) who were later to line the pockets of Adolf Hitler. An expert horseman and gentleman jockey, Franz was early admitted into Germany's select Military Riding School. Six years after leaving school he was a captain on the General Staff. Photographs of Papen taken at that time show the young Erbsälzer looking straight into the camera with a characteristic...
Schumann: Symphony No. 3 ("Rhenish") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, eight sides). German Exile Walter makes this romantic symphony as light and clear as Rudesheimer Schlossberg...
...turned socialist theory into a military crusade of the working class against the middle class were Karl Marx, atheist offspring of several long lines of respected rabbis, and Friedrich Engels, amiable son of a prosperous Rhenish textile tycoon. Marx brought to this crusade a stupendous knowledge of Hegelian philosophy, a brilliant economic mind, trenchant political discernment, a complete inability to earn a living, a perfect willingness to let Friend Engels earn one for him. Marx was also one of the most vituperative geniuses who ever lived. Favorite Marxian epithets for friends and foes alike: Dog! Bedbug! Swine! Pot! Blockhead...
Typical request is that of the 15 Germans in the Rhenish Mission (Reformed) near Canton: "We naturally only ask for our daily bread. So $20 would be enough for one person a month." Danish missionaries in Nigeria, where living is still cheaper, said they could keep going on $10 a month for married couples, $7.50 for single workers...