Word: bruno
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Berlin lamp factory. Politburo Member Albert Norden asked assembled workers why, if they had complaints, they did not use the officially provided complaint book. "Sure," came a sneering voice, "it's always full, but no one ever reads it." Out in the potato country, Central Committee Functionary Bruno Wagner was told flatly by a farmer: "One ought to listen more to the West." Refugees arriving in West Berlin said that lesser party hacks were unwittingly contributing to the exodus by boasting ominously that all exit routes to the West would soon be sealed off. Among...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Gianna d'Angelo, Renato Capecchi, Carlo Cava, Nicola Monti, Giorgio Tadeo; the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). As an effervescent Rosina, Soprano d'Angelo confirms the promise of her recent Metropolitan opera debut, but the honors here belong to Baritone Capecchi, whose Figaro is vibrant-voiced, flamboyant and believable...
GEORGE T. BRUNO...
Things are so bad in Communist East Germany that even the Communists are talking publicly about it. Fortnight ago, submitting East Germany's 1961 economic goals to the party's Central Committee, top Politburo Planner Bruno Leuschner asked rhetorically: "Do we have difficulties?" Dourly, he answered himself: "Ja-wohl, we do." He ticked them off: "Unsatisfactory raw material supplies." "no more labor reserves," "failure to achieve a continuous supply of consumer goods...
...determinate performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium offers the composer a chance to shape his sound as he proceeds, and Mr. Moderna's final decisions are quite obviously the result of considerable experimentation. The program opened with the World Premiere...