Word: das
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hindemith's ability is not confined to instrumental music. His "Das Neue Werk," now being prepared for performance by the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society, is a masterpiece of contrapuntal writing with a purity of line that is a blessed relief after the saccharine style of much nineteenth century choral writing. Despite its bizarre harmonies, this composition reminds one in certain of its features of fifteenth and sixteenth century religious works...
...Mahler's large symphonic works are available for the phonograph, both recorded from concert performances: Das Lied von der Erde and Second ("Resurrection") Symphony...
...program will consist of: Songs Gesegnet sei Und willst du deinen Liebsten sterben sehen Er ist's Das verlassene Magdlein Der Freund Hugo Wolf Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 Hindemith Songs with Viola Gestillte Sehnsucht Geistliches Wiegenlied Brahms La Cloche Felee Serenade Dansons la Gigue! Loeffler
...Christian churches in Germany have taken such a beating from the Nazi regime in 1937 that good Nazi adherents had begun to wonder whether it would be politically safe this year for them to celebrate Christmas. Taking up this vital question, Das Schwarze Korps, organ of Adolf Hitler's black-uniformed Special Guard, which consistently baits Jews, Catholics, Protestants, last week assured Germans that they might observe Christmas without being guilty of "unGerman practices," It asserted: "Christmas is no intellectual property of the Christian confessions. They simply borrowed it without asking permission. . . . This holiday is the exclusive property...
...save this exclusive German property Das Schwarze Korps also came out against those Nazis who wish to displace Christmas with a pagan winter festival and to substitute Balder for Christ. Balder, God of Light in Norse mythology, was invulnerable to everything except mistletoe. The God of Evil, Loki, Balder's enemy, found out his secret, persuaded the blind god Hoder to kill Balder by throwing a sprig of mistletoe...