Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After almost two years in Berlin, Olda and her mother were sent through Vienna, Bulgaria, Turkey and Syria to Palestine. There Olda's mother was put under medical care. Something impelled Olda to go straight on to Cairo...
...London's Royal Philharmonic is 129 years old, Vienna's Philharmonic only 11 days older...
Reinhardt is recognized as the greatest of the German school of directors, due to his work in the field of stage design and experimentation in lighting and other extraordinary effects. He has directed plays all over Europe--in Paris, Vienna, and Berlin--and in his castle at Leopoldskron he put on several pion-eering productions...
...high-brow auditoriums and hit Broadway. Broadway's Bat had undergone some important changes since Johann Strauss composed it. The changes were the work of famed Viennese Director Max Reinhardt, who used the same version he produced in Berlin 13 years ago and was afraid to take to Vienna for fear of scandalizing the tradition-minded Viennese. Director Reinhardt has whipped Fledermaus' drama into a light fluff, flavored it with a medley of Strauss waltzes from other sources, given it a new prologue, a new name (Rosalinda) and a decorous, Victorian strip tease (see cut) that leaves...
...going to judge music by its original environment or function, however much these factors influenced its creation. When a great musician has lived and breathed a certain style of music, doing as much as he can with its latent possibilities, the result will be art whether it hails from Vienna or the other side of the tracks. No "classicist" in his right mind would fail to recognize jazz, when well done, as art, deserving as much, if not more, respect than many of the patched-up things which, under the name of a Lizst, a Smetana or a Rossini, pass...