Word: seidl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many shared with their colleagues of the prosecution a feeling for the trial's grave historic impact. Said Hess's lawyer Dr. Alfred Seidl: "This is as new to me as it is to [Chief U.S. Prosecutor] Jackson. We are all groping in the dark. . . . We are just going to have to go through with this if we are going to prevent a third war." Said another, more intent on the immediate objective of saving 22 Nazi lives: "If Jackson was able to make new laws, the same should hold true...
...world,† the Philharmonic was now the patriarch of some 225 other U.S. orchestras. So stable a feature of Manhattan had the Philharmonic become that only twice in a century had its concerts been postponed: once on the death of Abraham Lincoln, again on the death of Conductor Anton Seidl. One Philharmonic feature would still be familiar to Ureli Corelli Hill: With an annual deficit of about $100,000, the Philharmonic is still a losing proposition...
...late Felix Weingartner was the last of a generation of European super-conductors, and his recent death means the end of a musical era, as well as a great loss to Columbia. He, and his contemporaries, Seidl, Mahler, Mottl, etc., grew up in Germany when Germany was cock of the musical roost and knew it. They worked under Liszt in Weimar, they learnt their Wagner opera in Bayrenth under the eye of the "Master," and in the flush post-war days they made Salzburg a summer Mecca for European big-wigs, where Mozart and Beethoven had to fight Schiaparell...