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Haydn: The Creation (Trude Eipperle, soprano; Georg Hann, bass; Julius Patzak, tenor; Isolde Ahlgrimm, cembalo; Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss conducting; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). This is one of Haydn's finest works, but paradoxically, one that sounds least like Haydn. Already in his late 50s, Haydn went to London, heard the choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor...
Carnival, an escape into childhood by a Chicago advertising man named Georg Bromberg, was pretty and gay as striped candy. Charles S. Smith's Urban Landscape was contrastingly gloomy, but its gloom was of the pleasantly unreal sort that makes Poe's horror stories entertaining. As might have been expected, there was an atomic-bomb picture-an explosion in a surrealist stew cooked up by Mrs. Annabel Berry of Dallas. The fanciest fantasy in the show was a Captive Amazonian Albino, painted by M. Lewis Croissant, a Missouri engineer...
...prisoners seemed well-fed and healthy as they slipped out to freedom. Georg von Schnitzler, a onetime director of Germany's vast I.G. Farben trust, was whisked off by a chauffeur in a black limousine. But most of the paroled men trudged to the railway station near the prison, carrying boxes and bundles. Most were in good humor, but one growled darkly: "Things will change." Another added: "And then those who are out right now will...
...Some Roughness Here." Each conductor, beginning with German Georg Henschel in 1881, had added something to the Boston's sheen. From 1884 to 1889 and from 1898 to 1906, the Vienna Opera's bearded Wilhelm Gericke, as Founder Higginson wrote, "gave to the orchestra its excellent habits and ideals." It was he, said Higginson, who "taught those violins to sing as violins sing in Vienna alone." Europe's greatest conductor, fiery Hungarian Artur Nikisch (1889-93) taught it how to "poetize," and perhaps he taught too well; at a rehearsal in 1904 Guest Conductor Richard Strauss growled...
...were fighting a cut-throat war this week for scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven out by the Straubinger Tage blatt, revived by Dr. Georg Huber, who had published it under the Nazis. Hard hit by six new competitors, another licensed paper had dropped 9,000 readers. New Score. Military Government offi cials hoped that the democratic press could weather the economic war, but the battles would be bitter. The nationalists had banded together into...