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...Villard's father, Henry Villard (originally Heinrich Hilgard), builder of the Northern Pacific Railway, came to the U. S. from Germany at 18. Mr. Villard himself was born in Wiesbaden, Germany...
Krenek, who was conductor and stage director of the State Opera Houses in Wiesbaden and Kassel, Germany, has composed operas, symphonies, piano and chamber music, and songs. He is known especially for his operas "Johny Spielt auf," and "Karl...
Meanwhile, his buildings, spotted around Europe, excited critics. Henry-Russell Hitchcock called his first, in Wiesbaden, Germany, among the world's best modern houses, was as enthusiastic about two small apartment buildings in Zurich. At the Harvard exhibition, visitors were impressed most by the variety and ingenuity of Architect Breuer's projects. They range from a great "Garden City of the Future" to chairs made of plywood. They include his multiplying glass window-a group of small round windows, each curved like a camera lens, so that the same scene appears in a different focus, or from...
...strength. And he braved the showiness of Liszt so capably that his audience might never have guessed, had he not mentioned it to an interviewer beforehand, that he had contemplated revising his program to spare his right thumb which, outstretched, had lately collided with his garden wall in Wiesbaden...
...various episodes in the story. Also on the program is the 'Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No.2 in D minor by the late nineteenth century American composer, Edward MacDowell, Mr. Howard Goding is to be the soloist. MacDowell, a pupil of Joachim Raff, wrote this work while staying at Wiesbaden in the summer of 1885, and although most of his compositions were in the line of tone painting, he deviated from his usual course in making this particular Concerto unrelated to any program material. Soon after he had completed this, he came to Boston, where he lived for many years...