Word: brandenburgs
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...organized to perforn chamber music primarily of the eighteenth century. Over the years their emphasis and preference have drifted to other styles. Last Sunday afternoon they showed themselves to be best at the music for which they were originally formed. The closing work of their program, the Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2, is often considered the finest example of concerto grosso writing. More often than not, its balance of concertino and ripieno forces is distorted to the point that the harpsichord and flute are never heard, the oboe, rarely, and the trumpet always...
...Wolf" narrated by President Bok, but that tidbit seems to have died a quiet death. Their program fittingly enough includes Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring." The Bach Society Orchestra has promised its full cooperation in a concert in Lowell House Dining Room, ending its season with Bach's "Second Brandenburg Concerto...
Isolated Field. The East Germans have their own small exclaves in West Berlin. There is, for instance, a triangular field between the Brandenburg Gate and West Berlin's Philharmonic Orchestra building that is cut off from East Berlin by the Wall. Correcting some of the problems would require the East Germans to move several sections of the Wall. Still, the secret negotiations made possible by the Big Four agreement offer hope that one day soon Eiskeller farmers will have electricity and Steinstuckeners will no longer have to spend three days acquiring permits to transport a piece of new furniture...
WHEN Soviet troops swept into Berlin in 1945, they battered down the doors of the Brandenburg Prison. Among the prisoners freed was Erich Honecker, a tall, gaunt Communist who had spent most of the past ten years in solitary confinement. Upon his release, Honecker lost no time in joining the Ulbricht Group, a band of Moscow-trained Communists who had been flown to Germany by the Russians to organize a government...
Secret Protocol. The problem of Poland's ethnic Germans dates from 1945, when Silesia, East Brandenburg, Pomerania and East Prussia, the former German provinces east of the Oder and Neisse rivers, were ceded to Poland at the Potsdam Conference. Some 9,575,000 Germans lived in the four provinces then; 7,330,000 have since left. In December, when West Germany recognized the Oder-Neisse boundary in the Bonn-Warsaw Treaty, a secret protocol paved the way for the remaining Germans to leave...