Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From Vienna, John Walker reported proudly that he had managed to secure a "fine little electric train" for his young son, Michael. The Walkers had a Christmas tree and hoped to festoon it with popcorn strings-if they could find some popcorn...
...schillings into rubles. The diplomats had to wash their own socks and underwear. Never sure where their next meal was coming from, they scurried from one hotel to another as bills came due. On top of it all the secretary turned out to have been pregnant when she left Vienna; after she went back home, the Minister and Counselor even had to type their own letters...
Doughty Waldbrunner stuck it for weeks, then fled to Vienna, where he announced his resignation. While Austria's Communists seized the incident to accuse the Government of "abandoning" its emissaries, Braunias held on in Moscow. To keep going, said his wife tearfully in Vienna, he was selling his very clothes, now a jacket, now a pair of trousers...
Presiding and performing at this one-course feast is 50-year-old Pianist Alexander Brailowsky, a small, lean Russian. Like another great Chopinist, Ignace Paderewski, Brailowsky studied in Vienna under Leschetizky, but it was not until he was already a box-office favorite in Paris that he got the idea of giving all of the master's works...
...Entführung aus dem Serail (The Abduction from the Seraglio). To make it popular, he set it in a harem. He filled it with "Turkish style" music and costumes which were fashionable in 18th Century Europe, gave the heroine his future wife's name Constanze. After the Vienna premiere in 1782, Emperor Joseph II said: "Too fine for our ears, my dear Mozart-and much too many notes." Despite the imperial reservation, Die Entführung aus dem Serail (Kochel No. 384-) became Mozart's first permanently popular opera...