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...charge of Parisian opera. Zubin Mehta of the New York Philharmonic said, "I will not go there under these circumstances." Herbert von Karajan, the grand old czar of the conducting world, declared that his plans for the Bastille were "null and void." Also lining up behind Barenboim: Sir Georg Solti of the Chicago Symphony and Carlo Maria Giulini, formerly of the Los Angeles Philharmonic...
...most recent controversy came to a climax last week, when John Paul triumphed over strong local resistance and appointed Georg Eder, a conservative village priest, as Archbishop of Salzburg, Austria. It was the latest act in a long-running drama. Last month the Pope named an equally unpopular conservative as Archbishop of Cologne, West Germany, Europe's richest diocese. In January 1988 the Pontiff shocked the Irish clergy by picking a conservative metaphysician as Dublin's Archbishop. A few months before that, he had installed a longtime Vatican official as Primate of Brazil, where many bishops condone the leftist liberation...
...Opera from a regional ensemble devoted largely to Italian opera into an international powerhouse that won renown by presenting major works, like Strauss's Die Frau ohne Schatten, for the first time in the U.S., and by offering major American opera debuts to Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Sir Georg Solti. While never equaling New York City's Metropolitan Opera in either budget (currently $23.7 million vs. $88 million) or length of season (13 weeks compared with 32 weeks), San Francisco established itself as an alternative that was often more interesting and adventurous than its staid East Coast rival...
...lives as regimes of terror. Lotti Packmor, 55, who left the colony with her husband in 1985 and now lives in Canada, said she had seen young boys given injections in their testicles and described Schafer as having beaten a young girl until "blood spurted from her nose." Added Georg Packmor: "No one dares even to think of escaping." A colony spokesman denied the charges and said that such alleged witnesses were mentally ill, alcoholics, adulterers and drug addicts...
BARTOK: SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION; BRAHMS: "HAYDN" VARIATIONS (CBS). Conductor Georg Solti hits the keyboard, joining Pianist Murray Perahia in a rousing pair of masterworks for two pianos...