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...elections, was on top of Europe's hit parade, with a song so old and square it sounded refreshingly different to a generation weaned on rock 'n' roll. Within little more than a month, a single of Scheel singing a square folk song called Hoch auf dem gelben Wagen (High Up on the Yellow Wagon) has sold 100,000 copies, making it the bestselling record by a German in recent years. SCHEEL SANG headlined the tabloid Bild. ALL GERMANY IS RAVING...
...City Opera owes its loyal fans the right to see Beverly Sills in her latest Donizetti revival, Anna Bolena (not given a major stage production in New York since 1850). But would those fans really desert if deprived of yet another new production of Richard Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos? Not likely...
will give an Advent Organ Recital on Sunday, December 10, at 4 p.m. at Harvard-Epworth Church, 1555 Mass. Ave. He will play pieces by Muffat, Brevi. Verschraegen, the Fantasy and Fugue in G Minor by Bach, and the Partita, Wachet auf by Hugo Distler...
...prima donnas, Miss Nilsson did indeed walk out on the Met. She not only refused to sing as Brünnhilde in the 1970 premiere of the new Von Karajan production of Götterdämmerung, but also canceled her scheduled performances next season in Ariadne auf Naxos. Her reason: the Met was letting that nasty Von Karajan whittle down the number of her performances in order to introduce a younger Viennese protegee, Soprano Helga Dernesch, to New York audiences. "When the birds are not happy," throbbed Miss Nilsson, "they don't sing...
...Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was born, 500 business, political and labor leaders gathered late last week for the funeral of the last sole ruler of the Ruhr's most powerful industrial dynasty. After the eulogies, a Krupp band struck up a miners' song called Glueck Auf (Good Fortune) and led the way out through a crowd to a hearse waiting in the rain. Behind followed ten Krupp miners bearing the oaken casket. Visibly in tears was Krupp's longtime confidant, Berthold Beitz, 53, a non-Krupp whose task now is to set up a foundation...