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Actually, Rauschenberg makes no claim to being the first to play the game. The cubists, he points out, long ago began incorporating materials from the real world (labels, newspaper clippings, playing cards) into their stuck-together collages. The surrealists later cottoned to the idea, as Max Ernst put it, of "coupling two realities, irreconcilable in appearance, upon a plane which apparently does not suit them." Dadaist Marcel Duchamp hung up mass-produced snow shovels and labeled them ready-made...
What Mahler left of the work was a patchy sketch of seemingly inscrutable calligraphy. In 1924, Composer Ernst Krřenek stitched together the more fully outlined first and third movements, but abandoned the rest as unsalvageable. Then in 1960, British Musicologist Deryck Cooke set out to solve the enigma. Making a painstaking note-by-note transcription of Mahler's sketch, Cooke "found to my amazement that what I was slowly writing down was entirely intelligible and indeed fascinating music...
Whether noted for its craft or its courage, the decision pleased German businessmen. They have been grumbling that the government's grandiose spending has nourished inflation and-worse yet-used up so much bank capital that private companies are hard put to find investment funds. Complains Ernst Schneider, president of the West German Chamber of Commerce: "The public sector is making demands on capital to such an extent that interest rates have reached a level worthy of an underdeveloped country." The Bundesbank has hiked Germany's discount rate twice this year, to 4% at present, and business loans...
...Died. Ernst Hohner, 79, third-generation head of Germany's House of Hohner, producer of 95% of the world's harmonicas, who took over the firm in 1923, added a line of electronic instruments and a music-printing plant, and developed the company town of Trossingen into a tourist favorite known as the "Singing Village"; of heart disease; in Trossingen, Germany...
...along for criticism to the lively circle of French surrealists who had been driven by Hitler to take refuge in the U.S. Motherwell's scholarship and knowledge of French poetry earned the surrealists' admiration; his work attracted Patroness Peggy Guggenheim, then married to Top Surrealist Max Ernst. She promptly proceeded to make him the youngest painter in her stable, which included Pollock, William Baziotes and Clyfford Still...