Word: auf
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million in the East. At Checkpoint Charlie, in West Berlin's American sector, a crowd gathered well before midnight. Many had piled out of nearby bars, carrying bottles of champagne and beer to celebrate. As the hour drew near, they taunted East German border guards with cries of "Tor Auf!" (Open the gate...
RICHARD STRAUSS: ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (DG). Strauss's glowing score, brightened by Kathleen Battle's sparkling Zerbinetta and James Levine's energetic baton...
...sweeps glamorously onto a concert stage dressed in one of her custom-made Rouben Ter-Arutunian gowns, it is impossible to imagine Battle's ever taking a letter or raising a ruler again. She is an ethereal Nannetta in Verdi's Falstaff, a sparkling Zerbinetta in Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos and a beguiling Susanna in Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, which she will sing at the Metropolitan Opera later this month in a new production by French Director Jean-Pierre Ponnelle...
Thus summarized, The Safety Net sounds like Dallas auf Deutsch. But Böll has the technical skills to lighten weighty social themes. His best narrrative trick is to keep the public Stürm und Drang at bay and focus on the private lives laid bare by pervasive surveillance. Suspense takes a back seat. Somewhere, hazily defined terrorists are poised to punish Tolm for his real and imagined sins of omission. Will the assault be by cake bomb, a flight of mechanical birds stuffed with explosives or a mysterious boy with a "bomb in his head"? Who will attempt...
...surprise of the evening is Von Heute auf Morgen (From Today Until To morrow), a one-act comic opera being given its U.S. stage premiere. Schoenberg had consolidated his epochal twelve-tone system by 1923, supplanting the traditional seven-note scale with all twelve chromatic tones, which, in various intricate arrangements, became a new basis for melody and harmony. Von Heute, composed in 1929, qualifies as the first twelve-tone opera. It shows off the range of effects that are possible within such a seemingly rigid system: singable lines, comic punctuation in the orchestra, a brief pastiche of Italian lyricism...