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The Map Room of Madison, Wisconsin
On the second floor of a hundred year old house near Vilas Park in Madison, Wisconsin, is a guest bedroom known as the Map Room. Three of its four walls have been wall papered by huge maps … Continue reading
Posted in Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Austria, Berchtesgaden, Churchill, Darkest Hour, East Germany, Ed Elder, Freiberg, funeral, General, Hitler, Island, Kitzbühel, LaFollette, Madison, Map Room, maps, National Guard, North Pole, Pforzheim, Ralph Immel, Vilas Park, War Room, Wisconsin, World War 2
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NAZI LEGACY ALIVE AND WELL IN AN AUSTRIAN CEMETERY
I came upon a plaque on the church wall in the cemetery at the edge of the Austrian ski resort town of Kitzbühel that profoundly disturbed me. The chiseled marble commemorates a soldier who died in World War II. There … Continue reading
Posted in Beginnings, Notes in the News, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Adah Gleich, Austria, Berlin, cemetery, churchyard, Confederate, Fatherland, Germany, grave, Heimat, Heldentod, Holocaust, Homeland, Karl Prieler, Kitzbühel, memorials, Monika Skowronski, Nazi, Propaganda, Schindler's List, Stahnsdorf, Stolpersteine, Tirol, Vaterland, Vergangenheitsbewältigung, World War 1, World War 2
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THE COW BELL CANTATA – and a Splatterrific Intermezzo
Wild Emperors, Coxcombs and Horny Mountains in Tirol Plus Heidi-centric Encores! COW BELL CANTATA – CANTATA DA CAMPANA MUCCA registrato da maestro Daniello Ashkenasi 1. Movimento – Allegro con Forte Subito Encountered some musical cows on the slopes … Continue reading
Posted in Chamber Works, Melodies Linger On, Two-fisted Touristing
Tagged Alps, Austria, brass band, Cantata, Cow, Cow Bell, Frl. Menke, Hahnenkamm, Heidi, Hohe Berge, Intermezzo, Kitzbühel, Kitzbüheler Horn, Lebenberg, mastication, music, Neue Deutsche Welle, Platzkonzert, subito, Tirol, Wilde Kaiser
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NfaC Repost: The Sound of Music: Embracing the “Sugarcoated Lie”
This article was one of the first ever published on “Notes from a Composer” and quickly became one of the more popular during the first months of the blog’s existence. I thought I would repost it so newcomers to the … Continue reading
THE SOUND OF MUSIC: Embracing the “Sugarcoated Lie”
Ed and I were in Berlin* a couple years ago visiting my folks when we stumbled upon a German movie from the 1950s being shown on TV. We missed the first seconds of the credit sequence and so didn’t catch … Continue reading
