Word: berlins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week West Berlin's Singakade-mie performs the Christmas oratorio with members of the Radio Symphony Orchestra. In London, Composer Benjamin Britten conducts three cantatas for the BBC from St. Andrew's Church in Holborn. In Manhattan, Violinist and Conductor Alexander Schneider completes a two-concert series of cantatas and concertos at Carnegie Hall. And in New York, as in other major capitals, the coming weeks will see a performance of Bach's undoubted masterpiece, the B-Minor Mass-a work that he began as a tribute to the Catholic King of Poland, but which...
...legal education came after the war, and he has established a reputation as a competent, calm and fair judge. Overwhelmed by the reaction to his decision, he suffered a nervous breakdown a few days later. Meanwhile, as 7,000 left-wing students demonstrated against the verdict on Berlin's Kurfürstendamm, Chief Federal Prosecutor Ludwig Martin let it be known that he would handle the appeal against the acquittal...
...some of the best vineyards in Beaujolais, he pursued an aimless study of existentialism, political science and art history at the Sorbonne. Turning to art, Ponelle was fascinated by early 16th century French and Dutch mannerists. This influence was quite pronounced in his first theatrical sets for a 1954 Berlin production of Luigi Nono's ballet, The Red Coat. Composer Hans Werner Henze, a boyhood friend, later asked Ponelle to design a production of his opera, The Stag King. Other commissions quickly followed...
...time passed, Weissenberg's sabbatical threatened to stretch on indefinitely. Then, in 1966, Conductor Herbert von Karaj an re-established him in Europe overnight by choosing him to open the season with the Berlin Philharmonic. Last year the comeback was completed in the U.S. when Weissenberg dashed off an exhilarating version of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic. As his performance of Chopin's Concerto No. 2 last week showed, his playing nowadays bristles with the strength of a new maturity...
Idolatrous Counterfeiters. The son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, Barth studied theology at the University of Berlin under Church Historian Adolf von Harnack. Perhaps the greatest of Protestant liberals, Harnack stressed the importance of Jesus as a supreme ethical teacher more than as God's son, and Christianity as the culmination of mankind's spiritual aspirations. World War I destroyed Barth's faith in secular optimism; he was also appalled that his teachers supported the war policy of Kaiser Wilhelm. While serving as a pastor of a Reformed church in the Swiss village of Safenwill, Barth returned...