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Liebesnacht. Worried by rumors that his romance with Mimi was hurting him politically, Hitler broke things off in the summer of 1928. Mimi tried hanging herself, finally instead married a hotelkeeper in Seefeld. Then in January 1931, there was a knock on her door. It was Rudolf Hess. "Hitler sent me," he said. "He wants to know if you are happy." Maria got the idea and soon ran off to Munich. There was a touching reconciliation on Hitler's sofa and one breathless Liebesnacht-night of love. Peis quoted Maria: "I let him do what he wanted...
Musical history has not been kind to the memories of Johann Kittl, Anton Titl and Rudolf Bibl, three 19th century composers whose reputations were as truncated as their names. Nevertheless, K.T.&B. have an outspoken champion- Boston Composer-Musicologist Nicolas Slonimsky. Along with some 10,000 other menand women-about-music, the three have recently been embalmed in an impressive Slonimsky-built ossuary of pure research: the 1,855-page fifth edition of Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (G. Schirmer...
...Lost Cord. In Bonisdorf, Austria, Bürgermeister Rudolf Schadl inspected 4 cubic meters of firewood cut on village land, returned the next day to find the woodpile still neatly stacked-but 32 feet away, in Yugoslavia...
...radio. This year, with the Metropolitan auditions radio program off the air, they were brought to New York by the Met's National Council to compete on the great stage before judges and an audience. Each of the 15 contestants had a preliminary hearing before General Manager Rudolf Bing and his panel to decide what they should sing in the finals, then rehearsed under Conductor Kurt Adler. With that preparation, they walked onto the Meistersinger set (already in place for an evening performance) to compete for the big prize: a contract with...
Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning...