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...descended from a long line of conductors of the Viennese school, a special breed that has all but disappeared from the world's concert halls, a line that once rang with such great names as Gustav Mahler, Felix Weingartner (Krips's teacher), Franz Schalk and Bruno Walter. What those artists had in common, says the Buffalo Symphony's Krips, was a sense of continuity, a conviction that music should be "one long legato line." Krips's own legato line as he conducts Beethoven and Brahms is as admired as any in the world, and at Lewisohn...
...read by the Braille system of raised dots. It is aimed exclusively at the blind person's understandable love of music. In its eleven articles-reprinted free from such publications as the New York Times, Musical America and TIME-Overtones advises readers on tape recorders, introduces them to Bruno Walter and Leontyne Price, tells them about new records...
...angering Russia by annexing Bosnia and Herzegovina. Similarly, last week's German visit had a second purpose. Accompanying Lübke was Bonn's Foreign Minister Gerhard Schroder. While the two Presidents went off to the opera and the Spanish Riding School, Schroder and Austrian Foreign Minister Bruno Kriesky were hard at it across the diplomatic table. Topic of their talks: neutral Austria's announced desire to join the European Common Market in some vague manner...
...Bruno Fricker, who during his career as a chef has cooked in German airships, prisoner-of-war camps, and Boston restaurants, came to Harvard only recently, according to an article in the February Alumni Bulletin...
...Died. Bruno Walter (born Bruno Walter Schlesinger), 85, peerless, poetic interpreter of romantic music, a Berlin-born piano prodigy, who as a young coach with the Hamburg Opera fell under the influence of Composer Gustav Mahler ("It was a revelation to me that a living man could be a genius"), whose works he championed in a distinguished conducting career that took him from Riga to Covent Garden and-following the rise of Hitler-to high esteem in the U.S.; of a heart attack; at his Beverly Hills, Calif., home...