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...Continued my sightseeing through the Joseph-Stadt or ancient ghetto of Prague, noting the synagogue which is said to be one of the oldest in Europe. As we emerged from this quarter and headed for the 'new town' with its handsome streets and palaces, a limousine stopped at the curb in which sat a man who reminded me at first glance of Mussolini...
...intricately sophisticated pattern for bells in his Japanese Temple Gongs; stern bells crash and roll in Tschaikowsky's 1812 Overture; sleigh bells jingle like hard, gay laughter in his Troika (Op. 37, No. 11); bells happily pious tinkle in the Celeste of Korngold's Die Tote Stadt; the profound and icy-hearted Kremlin bell booms in Rachmaninoff's Prelude (Op. 3, No. 2). Many are the other great composers who have written bell-music...
...Sincerely speaking, I believe my own work superficial. It is true that new composers have much talent, but they are not strong. . . . With the exception of Eric Korngold, composer of Der Tote Stadt, I cannot mention anyone I believe in. I am now working on a libretto by Hugo von Hoff-mansthal, author of The Miracle, which suggests great possibilities...
This Jeritza is a miracle of that vague quality we call personality. No one of those present at the time will forget his first sight of her in Die Tote Stadt a year ago. The wizardly clever but banal music had woven a climax for a superb entrance. A door swung open, and on the upper landing of a low stairway a flame of orange appeared, a Juno-like figure radiant in smiles and a blond glamor. That was Jeritza...
...dissertation, entitled "Smyrnaeorum Resgestae et Antiquitates," gained the rare compliment from one of his most distinguished teachers, Karl Friedrich Hermann of Gottingen, of being mentioned in his work on Greek Antiquities, in which these words still stand in the fifth edition: "Welche fleissige Arbeit alle sonstige Nachweisungen uber diese Stadt (Smyrna) unnothig macht." Another distinguished professor at Gottingen, Schneidenin, in the preface to an edition of Hyperides, thus alludes in 1853 to his two recent pupils, Lane and Gilder-sleeve: 'Vivorum juverum et candore animi praecellentium et ad ornandas in illo orbe litteras antiquitatis vatorum." Many interesting traditions, some...