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When Elektra had its premiere in Dresden in 1909, it nearly shocked the critics out of their seats. For the better part of two hours, Strauss's orchestra rages, shrieks and howls with a kind of demented fury. Moreover, Librettist Hugo von Hofmannsthal's reading of Sophocles bristles with frank Freudian overtones of a kind the operatic stage had not seen before and would not see again until Berg's Wozzeck. All in all, the audience tended to agree with the fabled Ernestine Schumann-Heink, who sang the first Klytaemnestra but vowed never to do it again...
...long and stodgy history, the British Museum had rarely put on such a smashing show. There was something for every taste-Bronze Age jewelry, Persian miniatures, African masks, Dresden porcelain, drawings by the top Renaissance masters. But it was not the art that brought the public streaming in. The objects were the museum's most painful mistakes: fakes that had cost the museum dear in pounds and embarrassment...
...first time since our predecessor selected Brenda Frazier as the Queen of Glamour, we are ready to name the No. 1 Deb of the Year and the nine runners-up. Queen Deb of the Year is Jacqueline Bouvier, a regal debutante who has classic features and the daintiness of Dresden porcelain . . . Her family is strictly 'Old Guard...
Building a Bridge. The son of an engineer in a paper plant, Kirchner studied architecture at his father's insistence, but switched to painting as soon as he got his diploma. In 1905 he and three former fellow students set up a studio in an empty Dresden butcher shop, proclaimed themselves the leaders of a new movement that they called Die Brücke (The Bridge). The movement had only the haziest of programs: it simply wanted to attract "revolutionary and fermenting elements" who would build a kind of bridge into the future...
...members of Die Brücke endlessly read Verlaine, Rimbaud, D'Annunzio and Nietzsche. They drank into the night, took midnight swims with their female models, absorbed everything from the fiery swirls of Van Gogh to the dramatic African masks that were being displayed in the Dresden Zoological and Ethnographical Museum. By 1911, when they decamped to Berlin. Kirchner had developed a boldly distinctive style of his own, and he had begun painting the famed street scenes that were to be his forte (see color...