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...beautiful White Russian princess finds herself stuck in unpredictable wartime Berlin. One night it is a piece of suspect schnitzel and a cup of ersatz coffee. The next evening it could be oysters and champagne at the spacious flat of a baron or a count. The years pass, and she discovers that many of the swells with whom she works and plays are part of the conspiracy to assassinate Hitler in July...
...five children of Prince Illarion and Princess Lydia Vassiltchikov of St. Petersburg. The family left the Soviet Union in 1919 to live in Germany, France and Lithuania, then an independent republic. During the Depression of the 1930s, Missie and her sister Tatiana (a future Princess Metternich) sought work in Berlin. The diarist's fluent English landed her a job as a translator with the Foreign Ministry's information department. After the war, she and her husband, Architect Peter Harnden, had four children. He died in 1971 in Barcelona. Missie then moved to London, where she died of leukemia seven years...
...diaries of a White Russian princess in wartime Berlin tell of the German elite who attempted to kill Hitler but failed...
Traveling by freighter, he found his way to Italy. Within a couple of years, he had studied with Herbert von Karajan in Berlin and had been named one of Leonard Bernstein's assistants at the New York Philharmonic. At 27, he seemed the embodiment of Japanese musical aspirations when he returned to Tokyo to lead some concerts with Japan's most prestigious orchestra, the NHK Symphony. But his brash ways offended the conservative, prideful musicians. "We won't be bullied by that kid," they declared. In December of 1962, Ozawa stood alone on a podium in front of an ensemble...
...between his two lives, Ozawa has sent his wife Vera and their two children back to live in Japan, and he returns to their Tokyo home often. Yet a full-time career in Japan would be too limiting for a conductor mentioned as a potential successor to Karajan in Berlin. Although there have long been predictions of his imminent departure from Boston, Ozawa speaks confidently of his future with the orchestra (his only permanent post). He is, he says, content...