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Using all the tricks of variation he likes so well, Benjy Britten had made Composer Johann Christoph Pepusch's original music barely recognizable. As the townswomen trooped onstage, Britten represented each with a different solo instrument-chilling woodwinds, a whining oboe, a trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances...
...more than 5,000 of them were killed off. Hounded from country to country and plagued by internal divisions, they persisted in Europe, doing their stubborn best to obey God and get along with man. They annoyed, baffled and roused the suspicions of their fellow Christians. Wrote Catholic Author Christoph Andreas Fischer...
...Mozart fans who expected another Don Giovanni or Marriage of Figaro, it was a disappointment. The Abduction from the Seraglio is a trifle in which half of the dialogue is spoken, not sung. Its story (supplied by Librettist Gottlieb Stephanie, who borrowed it from a comedy by Dramatist Christoph Bretzner, who probably borrowed it from an English comic opera called The Captive) tells of an English cavalier and his manservant who try to liberate the cavalier's lady love and her maid from a Turkish pasha's harem...
...Accounting. In Milwaukee, Elmer Christoph, treasurer of the local Society of Accountants, blushed for a $900 error in his annual report, laughed last when he discovered that the Society's auditing committee had okayed his faulty figures...
...mortal remains of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe had disappeared on an iron-age pilgrimage never dreamed of by Poet Matthew Arnold. Also missing from its place beside Goethe in the city's Friedhof (cemetery) was the coffin of Goethe's great friend and fellow poet, Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...