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...Metropolitan show was a 5½ ton Pieta done in the muscular, dramatically contorted tradition of Michelangelo, and too big to transport to Pittsfield. The Berkshire exhibition emphasized Městrović's carved wooden bas-reliefs and single figures whose intensity made Hungarian Sculptor de Strobl's vaster ideas look blown up (see below...
...connoisseur of art, as generals go. In the summer of 1946, when Hungary was looking for somebody to commemorate its "liberation" with a giant monument, Voroshilov found the man on the spot. On a stroll through a Budapest park, he had seen and admired a sculpture by Sigismund de Strobl. Voroshilov dropped in at De Strobl's studio on newly named Voroshilov Avenue, found the sculptor quite willing to do the job. But De Strobl would have nothing to do with the proposed designs, which called for a Greek temple. "Design what you like," said Voroshilov grandly...
...Voroshilov picked up De Strobl in his limousine, took him to the top of rocky Gellert Hill, which overlooks the city, the Danube, and the broad Hungarian plain. Said he: "This is where we will put our monument." With the help of 300 workers, they...
...Suppe 2. Overture, "Martha," Flotow 3. Waltz, "Pomone," Waldteufel 4. Selection, "Belle of New York," Kerker 5. "Blissful Dream," Meyer-Helmund 6. Selection, "Carmen," Bizet 7. Ballet music, "Sylvia, Delibes 8. Overture, "Tannhauser," Wagner 9. Sextette from "Lucia," Donizetti 10. Waltz, "Harlequin's Wedding," Zach 11. Polka, "Tic-Tac," Strobl 12. March, "Cruiser Harvard," Strube
...Waltz, "Avec Plaisir," Strobl...