Word: darmstadt
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...heartless urban landscape, but its own megalomania crushes the small point it makes. On the other hand, Beuys is brilliant at using laconic, coarse, gritty, abandoned things to suggest a tragic sense of history. A case in point is his dreadful reliquary of Auschwitz, from the Stroher collection in Darmstadt: its few objects in a glass case-blocks of fat on a battered electric hot plate, moldering sausages, a mummified rat on a straw bed, a diagram of the camp, a drawing of a child-are perhaps the most poignant, and certainly the least exploitative, image in modern...
Chamber musicians often speak of the "terrible intensity" of their lives. Top quartets can average 100 concerts a year, some 200 days on the road. Performances are not always the rarefied affairs that one might imagine. When the Juilliard was playing once at Darmstadt, Germany, a contemporary music center, the crowd found the Elliott Carter quartet so passe that they talked and jeered throughout. Robert Mann retaliated by playing with his back to the crowd. When the Concord was playing at Vassar in 1972, the group had to stop twice in a lengthy George Rochberg quartet to replace broken strings...
...government decided in 1972 to enter the field of music research, it moved boldly to dominate it. In the U.S. there are a number of centers for computer music, with Stanford the dominant one. In Europe, Germany has been a focus for innovation ever since the postwar years, when Darmstadt became an explosive forum for young composers. IRCAM clearly means to be the new Darmstadt: it has the facilities provided by a huge 59.2 million franc allocation, and in Pierre Boulez, 53, it has the catalyst to at tract the top talent...
...extent of the plot. As German armies pressed the Ardennes offensive during Christmas week 1944, Skorzeny directed the infiltration of hundreds of English-speaking Germans clad in U.S. uniforms behind Eisenhower's lines. While awaiting a denazification trial in 1948, Skorzeny escaped the German prison camp at Darmstadt and spent his remaining years as a businessman in Spain...
MWANDISHI (Warner Brothers). Miles Davis Protégé Herbie Hancock shows what jazz might have sounded like if it had come up the river from Darmstadt, that European mecca of the avantgarde, instead of New Orleans...