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...spent almost a month in jail for the crime of wanting to change jobs, there is only a plaque to mark the spot on which the family home stood. In Cothen, where Bach worked for the music-loving Prince Leopold from 1717 to 1723, producing among other masterworks the Brandenburg Concertos, the exact identity of Bach's home is uncertain. And in Leipzig, the Saxon center of commerce and learning, where Bach spent the last 27 years of his life, the school in which Bach lived and taught was torn down...
Such a show of independence from Moscow is surprising in an East bloc nation known for marching in lockstep with the Kremlin. But while Honecker has eased travel restrictions he has added a new extension to the Berlin Wall just behind the Brandenburg Gate, as if to indicate that there are clear limits on how far the new togetherness can go. TIME Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer spent two weeks crisscrossing East Germany in an effort to understand the ambivalence of a country striving to be both Communist and German. His report...
...Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (Archiv). Trevor Pinnock leads his crack English Concert in crisp, exuberant performances...
...back-room deal, little different from many others struck at the time, but it triggered an upheaval that altered irrevocably the history of the Western world. Albrecht of Brandenburg, a German nobleman who had previously acquired a dispensation from the Vatican to become a priest while underage and to head two dioceses at the same time, wanted yet another favor from the Pope: the powerful archbishop's chair in Mainz. Pope Leo X, a profligate spender who needed money to build St. Peter's Basilica, granted the appointment-for 24,000 gold pieces, roughly equal to the annual...
George W. Brandenburg '65, assistant director of Harvard's high energy physics program, said that nuclear-related research at Harvard is "pure science only with no practical nuclear applications...