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TCHAIKOVSKY: SYMPHONIC WORKS: FATUM, THE STORM, THE VOYEVODE, THE TEMPEST (Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra...
...Voyevode have an orchestral touch and programmatic flair that approach the popular 1812 Overture and Capriccio Italien. And The Tempest, written four years after Romeo and Juliet, is one of the composer's grandest scores. Conductor Inbal, an Israeli now in his second year as head of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony, puts it all into a surging dramatic frame...
...called out to assist 6,000 civilian firefighters battling two fires that destroyed 20,000 acres of forest land and threatened ten villages. Zookeepers also had their hands full. Penguins in the Cologne zoo had to be put in air-conditioned boxes. A lion in a safari park near Frankfurt lumbered out of his lair and took a dip in the park's fountain, and a frazzled baby leopard at the West Berlin zoo sprang out of its crate and bit West German President Walter Scheel, tearing his jacket...
...rigord-whom Napoleon had once called "a piece of dung in a silk stocking," presumably because of his tendency to shift allegiances. Also present were some 32 minor German princes, representatives of the Pope, the Sultan of Turkey and numerous special interest groups (including the Jews of Frankfurt). They were accompanied by an extravagant collection of wives, mistresses and servants, and so much time was spent at entertainments that the Congress never shed its image as, in Lord Byron's phrase, "that base pageant...
...begin his second retirement. Now completing a five-country singing tour through Europe, Frank found his blue eyes staring into empty seats in West Germany last week. Half the 10,000 seats in Munich's Olympia Hall were vacant for his first concert, and a second performance in Frankfurt fared almost as badly, causing Sinatra to cancel an appearance in Berlin and refund more than $85,000 to organizers of his West German tour. "Sinatra just is not part of the nostalgia wave now rolling over Germany," said one young music fan in Munich. "Now if you got Greta...