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...sometimes eerily familiar: Frankfurt's Barrel House Jazzband, for instance, aped the disk of Dippermouth Blues with such studious care that they even mastered the ascending intonation of the famous cry. "Oh, play that thing." near the record's end. And a jazz singer named Inge Brandenburg, 31, belted out her numbers with a phrasing and intonation that made her a dead ringer for Billie Holiday...
...ugly taint of anti-Semitism fell last week on the Grand Old Man of German Protestantism-Otto Dibelius, Evangelical Bishop of Berlin and Brandenburg...
...began with a front-page article in East Berlin's Communist paper, Berliner Zeitung, timed to appear just after Bishop Dibelius' good-will tour through Nazi-nervous England and to coincide with the five-day Berlin meeting of the Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg. It quoted at length from an article by Otto Dibelius in the weekly Friede und Freude of April 9, 1933-just 68 days after Hitler had come to power. Wrote the then 52-year-old Dibelius: "The government of the Reich has finally recognized the necessity to boycott Jewish businesses in the correct...
...Manhattan's Carnegie Hall watched a short (5 ft. 6 in.), pudgy man in white tie and tails play a 1737 Guarneri del GesÙ violin. In that time Virtuoso Isaac Stern, backed by the New York Philharmonic, worked his way through three separate concertos (Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, Brahms's Concerto for Violin and Cello, Alban Berg's Violin Concerto), giving each of them the luminous tone and the warmly lyric sentiment that are his specialties...
...Gemeinde (Voice of the Congregation). Bishop Lilje recoiled from his surprise package. "I cannot share Dibelius' views,'' he said. "One can't drive down the street any way one wants to." The board of managers of Dibelius' own Evangelical Church of Berlin and Brandenburg also stepped lightly out of the target area. "We cannot share [Dibelius'] interpretation," they advised member pastors. "The obedience required of us by Holy Writ in respect to governmental authority applies also to the governments presently existing today...