Word: du
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Madame Schwarzkopf, looking radiant and lovely in green silk, waited with queenly patience for the many latecomers who tramped in throughout the whole first section of the program, doing their best to mar the splendid repose of the opening song, Bach's Bist Du bei mir. Those who knew Madame Schwarzkopf's singing only from her recordings may have been a bit disappointed by the first two groups of songs, for her voice has not quite the purity and control of four or five years ago, and the acoustics of the HST seem bright and clear almost to a fault...
...encores, which Miss Schwarzkopf announced and (bless her!) translated: an exultant Ich hab' in Penna (a catalogue of lovers: one each in Penna, Maremma, Ancona, Viterbo, Casentino, and Magione; four in La Fratta, "und zehn in Castiglione," and a magnicently dramatic performance of the great Mignon ("Kennst du das land...
...outstanding works in a program of nothing but major works came first and last. Bach's Cantata 161, 'Komm, du susse Todesstunde' (1715) matched the efficiency of Mlle. Boulanger's conducting with its extreme economy of harmonic movement and accompaniment. Under her restraint, the ensemble of some twenty singers and twenty instrumentalists managed to sound personal, even intimate. Tenor Karl Dan Sorenson filled the museum court-yard with his clear and accurate voice; in her second solo, Contralto Jenneke Barton did the same...
...Urge to Educate. The Columbia television lectures are characteristic of Erpf's operations. Seven years ago, one of his investment sorties resulted in the creation of a profitable TV and outdoor-advertising chain called Metromedia. Inc.out of the ruins of the old Du Mont network. Recently, when he heard that Metromedia had an empty half hour of broadcast time in the morning, ardent Columbia Alumnus ('17). Erpf grabbed up the free time and got the lecture series under way with the financial backing of Columbia Associates, an organization of Columbia College well-wishers that he heads. The purpose...
...Algiers, the Place du Gouvernement, a sun-baked square between the casbah and the harbor, is known as "L'Abattoir" (the slaughterhouse). There, during the bloody struggle for Algerian independence, Moslem terrorists have taken a steady and fearful toll of Europeans. Last week, L'Abattoir butchers claimed two fresh victims in as many days. The deaths underscored an ugly new dimension that has been added, in its expiring moments, to the senseless 7½-year Algerian war. Both victims were newsmen...