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Word: und (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...songs that Schubert is measured today, by his Erlkonig that he wrote when he was eighteen, by Who is Sylvia?, Litaney, Tod und das Madchen and the Standchen, by the songs that crept in to become the life of his last string quartets, his quintet, the C Major and the great Unfinished Symphony. In Vienna he was first just the thirteenth child of a Moravian peasant-schoolmaster and a dreary cook in a middle-class family. He was the bushy-haired, undersized choirboy in the Imperial Chapel, the one with the thick spectacles. He was the feeble violinist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Centennial | 2/13/1928 | See Source »

...subject of the lecture will be "Architektur und DeKoration der Barock Kirchen in Deutschland im 17 und 18 Jahr hundert," and will be delivered in German...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Berlin Professor Will Speak at Fogg | 12/20/1927 | See Source »

Throughout Germany these words were voluntarily suppressed, last week, by nearly all news organs-so great and beloved is Paul Ludwig von Beneckendorff und von Hindenburg, so puny and ignored is Erich Friedrich Wilhelm von Ludendorff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Brittle Strategist | 12/19/1927 | See Source »

...Revival. Altogether charming was the performance of Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel. Queen Mario was Gretel, a wee child with pigtails stiff as taffy sticks. Editha Fleisher was Hansel, just ragged and happy. There was a real witch with matted gray hair and a nose like a spigot who rode on her broomstick way into the sky and ate little children. There was a gingerbread house and a red-hot oven where plop ended the witch pushed by wee Gretel just too stupid to get in herself. "Hocus pocus. . . ." Children loved it. So did grown-ups who quite forgot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Metropolitan | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

...buts. In Die Meistersinger, Crete Stiickgold from the Berlin Staatsoper was Eva, comely, pleasing. Richard Mayr (Vienna Staatsoper) was a dignified, experienced Pogner whose voice had seen better days. Dorothee Manski (Berlin Staatsoper) was the witch in Hansel und Gretel, a blathering old woman with small time to sing. Philine Falco in La Forza del Destino, Mildred Parisette in Violanta and Hansel, Margaret Bergen in the Sunday night concert, had small opportunities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: At the Metropolitan | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

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