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Furtwangler S Grave

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Author : Marshall M. Kerr
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2004

Furtwangler S Grave written by Marshall M. Kerr and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Fiction categories.

16-17 November 1973: having finally withdrawn from Vietnam and abandoned illegal carpet-bombings of ostensibly neutral Cambodia, the United States continues staring the Soviet Union down over the still-unsettled Yom Kippur War in the Middle East; Secretary of State Henry Kissinger - having apparently encouraged the overthrow and murder of Salvador Allende by the Chilean military - has just been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; Spiro Agnew has resigned the Vice Presidency in criminal disgrace; and Richard Nixon is battling to save his political career against charges he participated in a failed, third-rate burglary attempt at the Watergate complex. During a typical Friday morning and afternoon at the Mannheim Stockade, in west-central Germany, Army MP Sergeant Alf P. Bergson, a Vietnam veteran working as a Social Work/Psychology Specialist, deals with a schizophrenic prisoner in maximum security and the consequences of a rape in medium security, the evening before. After work, he visits a discotheque downtown, meeting both a middle-aged German veteran of the Russian Front and a charming young Gypsy, whose entire extended family was nearly exterminated during the Holocaust. The next morning, he walks through historic Rhine Valley landscapes to a ruined 12th-century castle in the mountains above Weinheim: reflecting on his own tour in Vietnam, his father's experiences in the Second World War, and current prospects for citizens of the United States - and the world. In the afternoon, he arrives in the nearby ancient university town of Heidelberg, looking for someone he met there some weeks earlier, during a Temporary Duty Assignment at the 130th Station Hospital. What he discovers about that young soldier's subsequent fate - and possible consequences of his own recent actions - leads to a major crisis of faith and yet more unsettling revelations. For more information, please visit http://www.opus95.com/heidelberg/Bergfriedhof.htm This book is also available in a German translation: Furtwänglers Grab: Novelle

The Devil S Music Master

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Author : Sam H. Shirakawa
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1992-07-02

The Devil S Music Master written by Sam H. Shirakawa and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-07-02 with History categories.

From 1922 until his death in 1954, Wilhelm Furtwängler was the foremost cultural music figure of the German-speaking world, conductor of both the Berlin and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras. But a cloud still hangs over his reputation, despite his undeniable brilliance as a musician, because of a fatal and tragic decision. Wilhelm Furtwängler remained in Germany when thousands of intellectuals and artists fled after the Nazis seized power in 1933. His decision to stay behind earned him lasting condemnation as a Nazi collaborator--"The Devil's Music Master." Decades after his death, Furtwängler remains for many not only the greatest but also the most controversial musical personality of our time. In The Devil's Music Master, Sam H. Shirakawa forges the first full-length and comprehensive biography of Furtwängler. He surveys Furtwängler's formative years as a difficult but brilliant prodigy, his rise to pre-eminence as Germany's leading conductor, and his development as a musician, composer, and thinker. Shirakawa also reviews the rich recorded legacy Furtwängler documented throughout his forty-year career--such as the legendary Tristan with Kirsten Flagstad and the famous performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in 1942 and 1951. Equally important, Shirakawa goes backstage and behind the lines to explore how the Nazis seized control of the arts and how Furtwängler single-handedly tried to prevent evil characters as Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels and Luftwaffe Chief Hermann Göring from annihilating Germany's musical life. He shows how Furtwängler, far from being a toady to the Nazis, stood up openly against Hitler and Himmler--at enormous personal risk--to salvage the musical traditions of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven. Shirakawa also presents moving and overwhelming evidence of Furtwängler's astonishing efforts to save the lives of Jews and other persecuted individuals trapped in Nazi Germany--only to be proscribed at the end of the war and nearly framed as a war criminal. But there was more to Furtwängler than his politics, or even his music, and we come to know this extraordinary man as a reluctant composer, a prolific essayist and diary keeper, a loyal friend, a formidable enemy when crossed, and an incorrigible philanderer. Numerous musical luminaries share their memories of Furtwängler to round out this vivid portrait. Based on dozens of interviews and research in numerous documents, letters, and diaries, many of them previously unpublished, The Devil's Music Master is an in-depth look at the life and times of a unique personality whose fatal flaw lay in his uncompromising belief that music and art must be kept apart from politics, a conviction that transformed him into a tragic figure.

The Athenians And Their Graves 1000 300 Bc

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Author : Elena Walter-Karydi
language : en
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Release Date : 2024-07-22

The Athenians And Their Graves 1000 300 Bc written by Elena Walter-Karydi and has been published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-07-22 with Social Science categories.

This book offers the first in-depth study of Attic funerary monuments during the geometric, archaic, and classical period. The analysis of forms, images and inscriptions shows, from an anthropological perspective, the Athenian attitude towards death in its fundamental difference to Christian occidental views. The book, which was originally published in German, is revised.

Daemons And Spirits In Ancient Egypt

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Author : Carolyn Graves-Brown
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2018-09-01

Daemons And Spirits In Ancient Egypt written by Carolyn Graves-Brown and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-01 with History categories.

This book is about the weird and wonderful lesser-known ‘spirit’ entities of ancient Egypt –daemons, the mysterious and often fantastical creatures of the Egyptian ‘Otherworld’ – and the closely related spirits of the dead, which together conjure the excitement of all things otherworldly. Daemons and spirits are generally defined in Egyptology as creatures not of this world, which do not have their own cult centre, and both groups are frequently listed together in protective spells. This volume explores the general nature of daemons and spirits in ancient Egypt and discusses a selection in more detail: it uses artefacts from Wales’s important collection of Egyptian objects at the Egypt Centre at Swansea University, in which are to be found a dwarf daemon with sticking out tongue; several guardian daemons of the Otherworld; creatures who are part snake and part feline; spirits of deceased humans; and a Greek satyr Silenus, companion to the wine god Dionysus.

A Catalogue Of The Ancient Sculptures Preserved In The Municipal Collections Of Rome

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Author : British School at Rome
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1912

A Catalogue Of The Ancient Sculptures Preserved In The Municipal Collections Of Rome written by British School at Rome and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1912 with Sculpture categories.

American Journal Of Archaeology

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1896

American Journal Of Archaeology written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1896 with categories.

The Newsletter Of The Wilhelm Furtw Ngler Society Of America

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Author : Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of America
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1989

The Newsletter Of The Wilhelm Furtw Ngler Society Of America written by Wilhelm Furtwängler Society of America and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989 with categories.