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Remember holidays too. In addition to Christmas, New Year's, Twelfth Night, Ascension, Pentecost, Easter, May Day and All Saints' Day, predominantly Catholic Bavaria, for example, celebrates Maria Himmelfahrt (Assumption), Fronleichnam (Corpus Christi) and, in a bow to ecumenism, the Protestants' Buss-und Bettag (Day of Prayer and Repentance). All this and June 17 (German Unity...
When Lothar de Maiziere became East Germany's Prime Minister, he didn't even have a working telephone. So I would have to send somebody from West Berlin to see him, or he would have to go to West Berlin and phone me. That was right after Easter. Since then we have completed a state treaty. Had you told me this a year ago, I would have said you were crazy. It's a crazy time, but also a fantastic time. I think of it as a blessing, in a way. And, of course, it is the fulfillment...
...when 150 Jewish radicals moved into St. John's Hospice, a four-building complex in the city's Christian Quarter owned by the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate. Church officials insist the move was illegal. Both sides faced off in the courts and on the streets as rioting crowds disrupted the Easter, Passover and Ramadan holidays...
What kind of conductor is New York getting? As he showed last week in leading the Gewandhaus Orchestra though performances of Beethoven's Fidelio and Bach's St. Matthew Passion at the Salzburg Easter Festival in Austria, Masur is capable of drawing passionate, powerful playing from his musicians. Neither a disciplinarian nor one of the boys, Masur favors a let-us-reason- together approach that prizes loyalty and enthusiasm over virtuosity. Not surprisingly, his repertoire is centered on the classics from Mozart to Mahler, which he conducts with short punchy gestures, usually without a baton. In Leipzig...
After a bleak Easter, the future of Mideast Christians is dimmed by civil war, Muslim pressure and emigration. Even the Holy City could turn into a mere Gospel museum...