Word: frankfurter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are some famous names, such as Donatello and Van Eyck; but most of the artists are anonymous, known only by such evocative titles as the "Master of the Frankfurt Garden of Paradise" or the "Master of the Hours of Rohan." The masters reported their share of cruelties and martyrdoms: but to a much larger extent, the exhibition reflects the courtly dolce vita of an age that, out of fear of the future, idealized the past and hid the present behind a facade of elegance. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga summed up the period best when he said, "It bore...
...wife and two boys, flew to Rome, where Wagner found the Eternal City in the midst of a mayoralty squabble. Then to Berlin, where he inspected the Wall, commenting: "It's the same as if you needed a passport to get from Brooklyn to Manhattan." He lunched with Frankfurt's Burgermeister and dropped in on bucolic Nastatten (pop. 2,600), from which his father, the late U.S. Senator, emigrated. Made an honorary citizen, Wagner asked if he could vote in the city elections. The literal Germans replied...
Saved by a Flash. Faithfully as they had imitated Blue Monday's plunge, foreign exchanges shot up on the news of Wall Street's Tuesday rally. On the Frankfurt Exchange, Volkswagen shares abruptly jumped from $125 to $145-higher than before the price break. In London, the Evening News headlined BOOM AFTER GLOOM and the Financial Times index showed its biggest morning surge since the 1959 Tory election win-though prices sagged again by week's end. Most dramatic of all was the recovery of the Sydney Stock Exchange: slow to receive news of Blue Monday, Australian...
Dixon, 47, spends about a third of the year in Frankfurt, the remainder of his time racing by plane or in his own Volkswagen to performances with virtually every major orchestra in Europe. He is an extraordinarily accomplished guest conductor, a talent he had already well developed before he left home in the 1940s, with degrees from Juilliard and Columbia in his pocket. By then he had already collected kind reviews while leading such major U.S. orchestras as the New York Philharmonic and the NBC Symphony. Trouble was, he got no offers of a fulltime conducting post...
Convinced as ever that his self-imposed exile is necessary ("I know of no Negro member of any leading American orchestra"),* Dixon stubbornly harbors an American dream. "I would like to go back," says he, "leading my own symphony." But despite his dreams, home remains a hilltop house outside Frankfurt, where he lives with his second wife-Finnish Baroness and Playwright Mary Mandelin. And Frankfurt, it seems, is where Dixon is likely to stay. "These people," he says, "are really in the music business...