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...Academy of Music. (This season's tickets were all sold out two hours after they were placed on sale.) As a special treat Stokowski gave them a world premiere: Alexander Gretchaninoff's Fifth Symphony. Then, as one adolescent, the whole audience sang Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Schubert's Ave Maria and a brand-new Philadelphia Youth Song to music by Sibelius. Maestro Stokowski called for more jive: "Let the walls rock and the ceiling move up and down," he cried. "I want to see that chandelier agitated by its emotion...
Speeches were made by Conductor Sergei Koussevitzky, the orchestra's President Bentley Wirt Warren, Festival President Gertrude Robinson Smith. The audience, accompanied by the orchestra, sang the Luther-Bach chorale, Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott. Thus was dedicated the permanent home of the latest candidate for an "American Salzburg." Tanglewood, a large Stockbridge estate where Author Nathaniel Hawthorne used to live, was deeded by its owners to the Boston Symphony two years ago. After a concert was spectacularly rained out of a large tent last summer, energetic President Smith started a drive to raise...
...hustled the brave Bishop into his automobile, swept the police and S. S. troops aside, trotted beside the car all the way to his house shouting "Heil Meisser! Pfui Müller!" Another crowd stayed by the church, solemnly chanting Martin Luther's great "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott...
Reichspräsident. Every German knows by heart the words of Martin Luther's hymn: "Ein' Feste Burg ist Unser Gott" (A Mighty Refuge is Our God). To Germans, both Republicans and Royalists, HINDENBURG is a feste burg too. If, as many thought last week, Germany struggling against disaster was fighting the battle of capitalism, then Hindenburg was capitalism's last prop...
When the 2,000th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth rolls round ( 1634 years hence) most Anglo-Saxons may have all but forgotten him, though Germans will surely stage tremendous demonstrations for "Unser Shakespeare."† But Italy does not have to wait to celebrate the 2,000th birthday of her bard. From toe to top of the boot-shaped Peninsula, last week, prefects of provinces and podestas (mayors) proclaimed the beginning of "six months of tribute" to Virgil...