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BRAHMS: LIEBESLIEDER WALTZES (RCA Victor). To a world that has waltzed to the elegant confections of the Strauss family, Brahms's Liebeslieder (with lyrics of Georg Daumer) may seem a bit heavy in a distinctly Teutonic way. But they have their own solid, unpretentious virtues: warmth and vigor that suggest Saturday night at a comfortable old Bierstube rather than a glittering ballroom. The performance by the Robert Shaw Chorale is robust, the piano of Claude Frank and Lilian Kallir downright athletic...
Woyzeclc, by Georg Buechner, has cast a deepening shadow across 130 years and a thousand writers. It is as if this young, 19th century German with a mind like burning phosphorus and a heart like an open grave had had an apocalyptic dramatic vision of the 20th century, with its human holocausts, scientific arrogance, uncertain values, private hysteria and despair. Out of this vision, he made a sketchbook of hell-a melancholy intuition, perhaps, of the death that was already seeping through his own veins to claim him at 23. The appeal to self-pitying modern men is that Buechner...
...staged highly successful community "walking days." A two-year-old Spazierengehen Stiftung (Strolling Foundation) has so far awarded 34,430 gold, silver and bronze shoe-shaped medals to enthusiastic strollers who have walked respectively 300, 200, and 100 hours in a single year. Presided over by, of all people, Georg von Opel of the car clan, the Strolling Foundation has even coined a slogan for motorists: "Get out and walk...
Austrians last week were wondering whether their lock would hold even long enough for a yelp for help. For nearly a month, the nation's two leading par ties had been locked in a noisy wrangle over defense spending, and in the midst of it, conservative Defense Minister Georg Prader was hard put to explain how he blew this year's entire arms budget on 36 Swiss Oerlikon antiair craft guns. That brought the self-righteous charge from a Socialist Party news paper that the price of one Oerlikon would pay for 125 new workers' apartments. More...
...Georg Buechner was an angry young German of the early 19th century. He was 21 when he wrote this play, and only 23 when he died. If he were alive today, he would presumably burn his draft card and spare the drama...