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...Schiller," Professor Burkhard, Germanic Museum...
...Schiller and German Romanties," Professor Babbitt, Sever...
...Schiller and the German Romanticists," Professor Babbitt, Sever...
Three hundred years ago Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein made a big name for his fighting in the Thirty Years' War (later immortalized by Poet Johann Friedrich von Schiller). Not many years ago in Chicago, Wallenstein's fifth-grandnephew, Alfred, last in the male line of Wallensteins, went shopping with his father to buy a bicycle. It had been offered as a reward for the attainment of certain grades in school. The grades were easily earned but the right bicycle was hard to find. Father & son passed a music store with a shiny 'cello in the window...
Conductors in San Francisco were to be Arthur Luis, famed in the West for his work with many a German song society, and Fest Director General Frederick Schiller. Principal soloist was Metropolitan's big-bosomed Soprano Margarete Matzanauer...