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...Green Pear Is a Green Pear. The first movement to make expressionism its own was formed by exuberant architectural students turned artists in Dresden in 1905 who called themselves Die Brücke (The Bridge) in the confident expectation that they would "attract all the revolutionary and surging elements." With the "audacious idea of renewing German art" the Bridge group-Ernst Kirchner, Erich Heckel, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Fritz Bleyl and later Max Pechstein-set up their studio in an empty shoe store...
Schumann: March No. 2, Op. 76; Waldszenen, Op. 82; Six Pieces from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Decca). Famed Russian Pianist Richter, 42, plays with an elegant cut-crystal touch that rarely blurs even in the breakneck passages. At full volume and speed, the piano geysers a language as distinctive as it is richly hued...
Died. Emil Nolde (real name: Emil Hansen), 88, pioneer German expressionist painter, who, with others of a group called Die Brücke (the Bridge), brought a vivid emotional style into German painting; in Seebüll, Germany. A major influence on German art, Nolde painted vigorous, glowing canvases, was a member of the Nazi Party, sold his "decadent" painting to Art Lover Hermann Göring while Hitler looked the other...
Schumann: Fantaslestücke (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.) Rubinstein can be hard! to beat when he settles down to it; here, playing one of Schumann's most poetic pieces with great simplicity and beauty of tone, he is incomparable. Recording: excellent...
...formal Geburtstagsfeier took place the day before, when some 4,000 Berliners solemnly gathered around Tempelhof. The huge square in front of the airport was renamed "Platz der Luitbrücke" (Airbridge Square). Berlin's Mayor Ernst Reuter told the crowd that they were in a fight which would not end until "all our people are free." He remembered how, when General Lucius Clay first told him that the U.S. would supply Berlin by air, he had remarked to the general's aide: "It's wonderful to hear Clay's determination...