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Diary entry for 1912-09-23
... 23. Bernard Shaw’s „Fanny’s erstes Stück“. George Bernard Shaws’ comedy was performed in Siegfried Trebitsch’s translation (Fannys erstes Stück) at the Johann Strauss Theater by a visiting theater company, the Kleines Theater (Berlin). Vor- und ...
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Diary entry for 1912-11-12
... performance of noble deeds. Until late at night, results of the reading of the autograph compared. After a short sleep, the letter to Vrieslander completed. For sake of discretion, so as not to offend the genteel person by the offer of presents, the money ...
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Diary entry for 1913-12-22
... same work for at least two years, at which point he is moreover not yet even in possession of the work, so that, tormented by pangs of conscience, must pay attention to all editions and performances so that he may be able to incorporate better nuances ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-02
... section on performance even of the variations, and thus the essence of the entire work. In the Oesterreichische Rundschau, a readable essay, "The Flight of Capital into Art," in which it is determined historically that rich people are not only betraying ...
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Diary entry for 1916-03-11
... was often transposed up an octave in early twentieth-century performances. empfehle ihm Em. Bachs Litaneyen u. erzähle über Bruno Walter, was ich kürzlich von Floriz hörte. Hupka sucht mich gegen Abend, trifft mich aber nicht zuhause; bittet, mich ...
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Diary entry for 1911-08-22
... individual has its own specific, completely different capacity. — Another analogy: Even musical performers commit the error of taking tempo markings as rates of motion to be maintained rigidly from beginning to end, to which they then, no matter what absurd ...
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Diary entry for 1915-03-18
... zu stellen. Abends in Hebbels „Gyges u. sein Ring” (nach vorausgegangener flüchtiger Wiederholung der Lektüre). According to the Neue Freie Presse, the performance took place at the Deutsches Volkstheater. 18. Postcard from Breisach from Marburg; the ...
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Diary entry for 1915-12-02
... French parliaments all talk is pure comedy will the German Social Democrats be able to refrain in this moment from performing an equally vacuous comedy in Germany. In the human beast, however, joining in the talks is much more in the bloodstream than ...
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Diary entry for 1918-09-09
... expressive in his phrasing and in other respects gave a convincing performance. We follow this group to the church, where they awaken our interest from another point of view, since having just barely dismounted the train, they intend to walk straight into the ...
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Diary entry for 1919-05-19
... terms with themselves before they make demands upon others. The Strauss fiasco in Vienna already in evidence at the first performance of Fidelio – but again no one knows how to understand the causes of the interpretative mistakes, so deeply has all human ...