Word: fischers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHUBERT: DIE WINTERREISE (Angel; 2 LPs). Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, the greatest living lieder singer, sings some of Schubert's greatest lieder-a 24-part cycle about a rejected lover who sets out on a winter journey of despair, tantalized by everything he sees and dreams. These were Schubert's own favorites among his songs and were written just a year before his death at 31. Hermann Prey, a younger German baritone of growing renown, has also recorded Die Winterreise (Vox; 2 LPs). His voice is richer, but his interpretation is less subtle: while Fischer-Dieskau suffers a hundred...
...Politics is a tool you will have to use if you hope to make any significant impac on the life of your generation," Fischer said. "It is a calling admirably suited for women, who always have been specialists in tacts, in persuasion, and in the ordering of society...
...Fischer noted that "this sense of impotence among young people seems to be almost uniquely American." He mentioned several examples of the determination of foreign students to change their surroundings, or at least to battle with them...
Admittedly, Fischer said, the "jobs that need doing" in other countries are much more obvious than in America, where "possible remedies are more subtle and complex...
...discussing a number of the urgent problems in contemporary America, Fischer noted that all of them involve some kind of political action. He urged that the Radcliffe graduates under no circumstances shrink away from politics...