Word: vienna
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their poverty and trodden down into an alien criminal class: that is to say, he belonged to an urban population . . . which wandered often workless and always traditionless, without power to control its destiny. It was indeed most appropriate that he should register his discontent by killing Elizabeth, for Vienna is the archetype of the great city which breeds such a population. . . . Luccheni said with his stiletto to the symbol of power, 'Hey, what are you going to do with me?' He made no suggestions. ... It was the essence of his case against society that it had left...
Kokoschka got his first important art training as an architectural designer in Vienna working under famed modern Architect Adolf Loos. In his spare time he painted tortured portraits of his Viennese friends. For his grim portraits and angrily smudged landscapes, collectors paid as high as $8,000. When Hitler invaded Czechoslovakia, Expressionist Kokoschka, caught in Prague, flew to England...
Before the Philharmonic, the U.S. had no professional orchestras. And in Europe, only London and Vienna possessed orchestras which were to survive the century...
...London's Philharmonic (founded in 1813) is now heard only sporadically, and Vienna's (eleven days older than the Manhattan orchestra) has been musically wrecked by the Nazis...
Died. Wilhelm Kienzl, 84, composer of the popular opera Der Evangelimann, given some 300 productions so far; in Vienna...