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DIED. HELEN WOLFF, 88; publisher; in Hanover, New Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
...seemed only to stimulate flag-waving, cowbell-clanking Norwegians. Before the race they bounced up and down to keep warm -- and to keep time with the weirdly appropriate golden oldies blasting from loudspeakers. One tune, Achy Breaky Heart, seemed a dirge for the brilliant career of Swiss veteran Franz Heinzer, whose bindings snapped as he leaped out of the downhill's starting gate. Heinzer whacked the snow with his poles in fury and three days later announced his retirement...
...decided that the lighting design was unsuited to the Lyric's stage. "It would have cost us an extra $600,000 just to put up and take down the lights," she explains. So, undaunted, she hired a new director, designer, conductor and soprano to complement her original cast. Baritone Franz Grundheber's tormented Wozzeck, soprano Kathryn Harries' ripe Marie, Graham Clark's strutting Captain and Norman Bailey's Mengelesque Doctor, all under the commanding baton of Richard Buckley, brought Berg's acerbic, atonal ode to the lumpenproletariat to vivid, expressionistic life...
...exhibition consists of many abstract expressionists who confront and dissect the issues of color. In two characteristic works by Franz Kline, color is reduced to the essentials, black and white. He creates a world of undefinable forms and limited space through the use of thick brushstroke and straight edges. In Composition (1952), space is sectioned off by geometric forms, creating depth and volume within a closed space. The white has traces of black to reveal the underlying layers of the painting as well as to indicate the presence of the painter himself. High Street (1950) portrays a more complicated definiton...
Only last month the discovery in Germany of six keyboard sonatas attributed to Franz Joseph Haydn was hailed as one of the greatest musicological finds in decades by one of its authenticators. But last week a consensus among experts began to emerge: the works may simply be fakes, although well-composed ones...