Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Unrest. May Day in Vienna saw 200,000 Socialists and a mere 20,000 Communists in rival parades. But the lack of animosity between them was notable. Said a Socialist: "Give us a kilo of fat and you'd see the marching...
...last of the great middle European giants of the symphony was Gustav Mahler, a Bohemian Jew who lived most of his life in Vienna. Like Richard Wagner, whom he worshipped musically, Mahler was a complicated introvert. He made his living by conducting other men's operas. His own, seldom-played, gargantuan (90-minute) scores are full of funeral marches, Dante-like infernos and heavenly serenities...
...escape. He had just started his tenth when he returned to the U.S. to conduct the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra. He soon became ill with a streptococcus infection which developed into uremia. Gustav Mahler, composer of nine symphonies, returned to Vienna on a stretcher, and died there...
...youngest was 17-year-old Mary Anne Orr, wife of an MP private in Vienna, looking like a high-school freshman in bobby-sox and saddle shoes. On her first trip away from home, Mary Anne had come as well prepared as any much-traveled Army wife. In her baggage were five suits, 20 dresses, nine pairs of shoes, five pairs of nylons. Besides clothing enough for a year or more, most had also stocked up on cosmetics and kitchen utensils; some had brought automobiles, furnishings to fit out a house completely...
...Carroll Glenn, to play in the White House, but List will have a hard time working it into his schedule. Next month he and his wife will fly to Prague to represent the U.S. in an international music festival. Then they will give concerts in Paris, Budapest, Berlin and Vienna, before taking a vacation in Connecticut. Says List, a very earnest young man: "I am looking forward to the summer as an oasis in the great sea of turmoil. Life is very exciting these days. So exciting I can hardly stand...