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...still pitch dark when the Soviet T-345 tanks clattered up to Brandenburg Gate and East German soldiers began unloading the first concrete blocks and the barbed wire. As the day dawned, crowds of Berliners gathered to watch what was happening: the building of a giant wall through the heart of their city. Last week, on the 15th anniversary of that gray morning, thousands of East German Communists paraded near the 25-mile barricade to celebrate it as a protection against "Western revanchists and provocateurs." On the Western side, the Christian Democrats countered with a solemn torchlight march...
...Brandenburg Party features open reading for winds and strings of J.C. Bach Symphony in B flat, Opus 18 No. 2; Mozart Symphony No. 36; and Beethoven Piano concerto No. 2. Tanya Bartevyan, soloist. Bring a stand. Dunster Library...
...want to talk over the telephone, and he did not want me to copy down his real name or the subject of the novel he is writing. He is on unemployment, but admits that he is "bourgeois" or at least "materialistic": the stereo was playing a Brandenburg concerto when I walked in, there was at least one plant hanging off the ceiling, and he began to talk--in the middle of a spotless and sunlit kitchen--after he had begun to drink the first of two glasses of hot cider...
...Brandenburg Party: Open sightreading of Bach's Concerto for oboe, violin and strings, and his third Brandenburg Concerto. Bring a stand. Sherry and cider. Dunster library...
Switched-on Bach, the burbling and tootling re-creations of the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and other works on the Moog synthesizer, has become the best-selling "classical" record of all time (3 million copies sold worldwide to date). None of the subsequent sons of SOB (The Well-Tempered Synthesizer, Moog Strikes Back) has ever managed to overtake the original, but the newest and most interesting challenger is Tokyo's Isao Tomita, 43. After a slow start last year, his RCA album Snowflakes are Dancing (electronic versions of Debussy piano pieces) has passed the 200,000 mark. Three months...