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On March 10, 1948, world-renowned composer and pianist Ernst von Dohn&aacute;nyi (1877&minus;1960) embarked for the United States, leaving Europe for good. Only a few years earlier, the seventy-year-old Hungarian had been a triumphant, internationally admired musician and leading figure in Hungarian musical life. Fleeing a political smear campaign that sought to implicate him in intellectual collaboration with fascism, he reached American shores without a job or a home. <I>A Wayfaring Stranger </I>presents the final period in Dohn&aacute;nyi&rsquo;s exceptional career and uses a range of previously unavailable material to reexamine commonly held beliefs about the musician and his unique oeuvre. Offering insights into his life as a teacher, pianist, and composer, the book also considers the difficulties of &eacute;migr&eacute; life, the political charges made against him, and the compositional and aesthetic dilemmas faced by a conservative artist. To this rich biographical account, Veronika Kusz adds an in-depth examination of Dohn&aacute;nyi&rsquo;s late works&mdash;in most cases the first analyses to appear in musicological literature. This corrective history provides never-before-seen photographs of the musician&rsquo;s life in the United States and skillfully illustrates Dohn&aacute;nyi&rsquo;s impact on European and American music and the culture of the time.

A level 3 Oxford Bookworms Library graded readers. Retold for Learners of English by Clare West. On a stormy winter night, a stranger knocks at the door of a shepherd’s cottage. He is cold and hungry, and wants to get out of the rain. He is welcomed inside, but he does not give his name or his business. Who is he, and where has he come from? And he is only the first visitor to call at the cottage that night… In these three short stories, Thomas Hardy gives us pictures of the lives of shepherds and hangmen, dukes and teachers. But rich or poor, young or old, they all have the same feelings of fear, hope, love, jealousy…