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...week's end, Hitler's guests, standing on the shore of the English Channel near Antwerp, heard Nazi soldiers sing: "Wir fahren gegen Engeland-We sail against England...
Mozart's Symphony No. 35 in D major: Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater," presented with the Simmons College Glee Club and with Janie Steinseld '43, alto, and Hedwig Miehle '41, soprano, as soloists; Bach's "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott" arranged and conducted by Ellis Kohs 1G; the Purcell Dance Suite with solo flute, Gabriel Jackson '42; and Beethoven's Overture to Prometheus comprise the program...
Sometimes known as the "Giant Fugue," the choral prelude, "Wir Glauben all' an einem Gott," was transcribed for orchestra in 1936 by Kohs, and has since then been played a number of times by the University of Chicago Orchestra, the New York Civic Orchestra under Edgar Schenkman, and the Illinois Symphony Orchestra...
...adopted the entire twelve lines, almost without alterations. Only in the last two lines, the bloody-red standard had to be replaced by the swastika standard, and the proposed reversal of the "Jewish throne" was substituted for the program of protecting the Soviet Union: "Die Hakenkreuzfahne zum Himmel empor; wir stürzen den jüdischen Thron." The choice of Higher and Higher therefore was rather appropriate for the occasion, as hosts as well as guests could silently accompany the band with their own respective versions...
Cried the No. 3 Nazi, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, introducing No. 1: "Führer be-fiehl! Wir folgen!" ("Leader, command! We follow...