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...Orchestra will present Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4, the Mozart Thirty-ninth Symphony, and the Sibelius First Symphony. Sander Shapiro '54, violinist, Daniel Pinkham, harpsichordiat, and Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson, flutists, are soloists...
...lack of mass-production experience got the plant snarled up. In 1948, the British brought in Heinz Nordhoff, who, as boss of General Motors' Opel subsidiary in Brandenburg, Germany, had run the biggest prewar truck factory in Europe. Nordhoff inherited a weird setup. No one knew who owned the Volkswagen factory or who should get its profits. Technically built by the Nazis' German Labor Front, the money came from 300,000 "Volkswagen savers," who paid $2 a week in advance for the cars they never got. But Nordhoff didn't care who owned the factory. Said...
East Germany's Communist government decided to dissolve these provinces: Brandenburg, once the domain of the Margrave of Brandenburg for whom Johann Sebastian Bach composed his six famous concertos: Saxony, birthplace of Otto the Great, founder of the Holy Roman Empire; Mecklenburg, once obedient to the Duke of Saxony; Saxony-Anhalt, which produced Martin Luther and George Frederick Handel; Thuringia, a center of Luther's Reformation...
Democratic Ideals. It was Ray Lascoe's job to infuse the new prosperity with democratic ideals. There were free city council elections. As Oberbiirgermeister the councillors chose Johann Peter Brandenburg, 44, an anti-Nazi lawyer who shared Lascoe's enthusiasm. Lascoe wanted the council to meet town-meeting style; no Pforzheim municipal official had ever before exposed himself to public questioning. Brandenburg winced but obliged, and won the city's first elections...
...Brandenburg and Lascoe made an ideal team. To familiarize high-school students with democratic government, they organized a U.S.-style "Youth Day." Stuffed shirts groused, "It's not a German idea." But Youth...