Word: josef
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week like the Madman Muntz of the art dealers' world. On the walls of his Lexington Avenue walkup were hanging drawings by 204 artists. Side by side with relative unknowns were works by such top U.S. moderns as Lyonel Feininger, William Baziotes, William Cropper, Philip Evergood and Josef Albers worth up to $250. Each drawing was marked at a flat $25. The only hitch: on none of the drawings was the artist's signature visible, and the gallery refused to say who had drawn what. The bargain show was just another way for the gallery...
Sure enough, it turned out that good Prince-Bishop Wenceslaus had been a patron of music. His favorites: one Vincenzo Righini (1756-1812) and one Josef Martin Kraus (1756-92), who once had a symphony conducted by Haydn. That was all Impresario Hammer needed to know. Now a baroque-music week is a permanent fixture in Bad Bertrich. This year's festival gets under way next month with music by Righini and Kraus, plus Mozart, Haydn and Schumann. It will be played in the castle's candlelit hall, dominated by portraits of the Prince-Bishop and his sister...
...Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann; Capitol); Mendelssohn's Elijah (soloists, choirs and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips; London...
When Contralto Margarete Klose sang in Jenufa at Berlin's Municipal Opera, she performed excellently. But along with the applause came a shrill of whistles and a thicket of catcalls. It had just been announced that Singer Klose, like Baritone Josef Hermann before her, was switching over to Berlin's State Opera under a three-year contract. On top of the reaction of Municipal Opera's fans, its famed director, Carl Ebert, 67, himself snapped an angry farewell. Its gist: his artists should not only be good singers but good citizens. Once they have gone, Klose...
Died. Eugen von Habsburg, 91, Archduke of Austria, distant cousin of the late Emperor Franz Josef, commander in chief of Austrian forces on the Italian front in World War I, grand master of the Order of German Knights; of pneumonia; in Merano, Italy. In 1918 Archduke Eugen was exiled from the Austrian republic for failure to renounce his claims to the throne, was invited back by Chancellor Dollfuss in 1934 as a concession to Vienna's imperial sentimentalism...