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...Glyndebourne Festival Opera Company; of a heart attack; in London. Member of a notable musical family (brother Adolf became a famed violinist and cofounder, with brother Hermann, of the first-rate Busch String Quartet), he played the piano at four, conducted at 19. As conductor of the Dresden Opera he spoke out boldly against state-controlled art ("I am a man, I hope, of a little bit of temperament, so I told everyone frankly what I thought about the Nazis"), left Germany in 1933 after Storm Troopers broke up a performance of Rigoletto...
Last week the Soviets locked the door on some 920,000 art objects (from old masters to old coins and trinkets) carted off from Berlin* and Dresden museums since 1945. After months of temporizing, Russian authorities finally answered an East German museum official's request for the return of the masterpieces with a flat no. Their reason: the treasures (including Raphael's Sistine Madonna, Correggio's Holy Night, Giorgione's Venus) were legitimate "war booty...
...designing, staging and direction is the work of Hans Busch, 36, son of famed Conductor Fritz Busch. Hans, who studied stagecraft wherever his father happened to be conducting, e.g., in Dresden and at Britain's Glyndebourne, where he worked under Carl Ebert, is now an associate professor on the Indiana faculty. He also works at outside assignments. This winter he made his bow at the Met with a restyled (but not unanimously praised) Cavalleria Rusticana (TIME...
...Kempen was born Dutch and had been a Concertgebouw first violinist at 17. He had, years later, become conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic and a German citizen. That was not so bad, but Van Kempen conducted in The Netherlands during the occupation, a few times for the benefit of the Wehrmacht. Many a Dutchman found it hard to forgive that. The musicians warned that Van Kempen would be "a source of pain." Nevertheless, the Amsterdam town council voted, 21 to 17, to hire...
Loyally responding to the challenge, one German delegate outlined the plot of a brand-new puppet play recently produced in Dresden. Its heroine, a little girl named Annamie, writes a letter to Stalin saying: "You never have any time, you poor man, to sleep at night, because you have to work for peace day & night." Touched, Stalin invites Annamie to visit him in the Kremlin...