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Only Twelve Tones. "Everything I have done so far has been working toward this," Kurt Weill said last week. Everything began for him in Dessau, Germany. Townspeople soon knew that the little boy, whose huge eyes and rudimentary physique gave him somewhat the look of a tadpole, was already composing music. At 13, he wrote his first opera. At 18, he went to Berlin to study with Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel and Gretel), that same year became conductor of the opera at the small town of Lüdenscheid...
...jigsaw of Russian intentions for Eastern Germany was fitting together. At first there had been only isolated clues-the wing of a prison converted into barracks at Dessau, an order for 5,000 shoulder insignia of the old German style, the sight of men marching and drilling on a onetime Wehrmacht training field near Rostock. Then the evidence came faster. The Russians were busily organizing a military "police" force of a quarter of a million Germans, almost twice as large as the entire force of pre-Hitler Germany...
Last spring the grain collections from German farmers in the British and U.S. zones were only 32% of quota. The Russians, who know how to exact grain from Soviet collective farms, have used their time-tried techniques much more successfully. At the village of Mildensee, near Dessau, a lad of 16, so small that he looked only ten, told me: "The Russians take 80% of our food." His father interrupted: "No, no, they take only half or a little more...
Gropius catapulted into the world's eye during the early Twenties when he directed the Bauhaus school at Dessau. Here was a driving educational experiment founded on the iconoclastic thesis that an architect "is not an artist but a coordinator who must make all of his decisions from the point of view of the improved community." Beauty in a building is not skin- deep, held Gropius, but an integral part of the complete unity; more important, by "building" he did not mean an isolated structure but the street, town, region, nation...
...frantic weeks Dr. Franz collected plans and blueprints, experimental engine models. Just before the Russians arrived, ten big U.S. trucks swept into Dessau, gathered up the scientists, made two jampacked trips to the west...