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German Composer Friedrich von Flotow (1812-83) wrote about a score of operas for the theaters of Paris, but only Martha remained in the repertory. As late as the 1920s it was a smash at the Met, with Caruso periodically igniting the house with the tenor aria "M'appari." The only other scrap of the opera likely to be familiar to modern audiences is The Last Rose of Summer, which Flotow lifted from a book of Irish folk songs, where it was known as The Groves of Blarney. When Berlioz heard Soprano Adelina Patti sing the air, he remarked...
...abruptly to grapple with the U.S. budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the economy of Uganda. Other Harvard absentees: Government Professor Arthur A. Maass (studying the water laws of Spain), Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. (lecturing on the West Coast), Government Professor Carl Friedrich (at a Texas seminar on Hegel) and Economist John T. Dunlop (mediating for the construction industry). Students who came to sit at the feet of such scholars could well ask: Where are they...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt's story about a professional policeman's obsessive pursuit of a killer works up an uncommon amount of suspense, thanks to excellent performances by Gert Frobe and Heinz Rühmann...
...Happened in Broad Daylight. An expertly performed story by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt about a cool cop's obsessive pursuit of a killer stirs up an uncommon amount of suspense...
...receipt of contributions from the former first lady, and from the wartime ambassador to Moscow and former Governor of New York, means that they have endorsed the project, and their names will be used in its promotion, according to Chairman Roger M. Leed '61. They join Carl J. Friedrich, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Hans Morgenthau, visiting professor of Government, and Karl Fox, visiting professor of Economics, as supporters of the week-long program of lectures and seminars...