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...only major public event of the trip is scheduled: a speech before what are expected to be tens of thousands at the Victory Tower in the Tiergarten. Campaign officials have been sensitive about the characterization of that event, insisting that it is a substantive foreign policy address, though given German enthusiasm for Obama, the atmosphere is expected to look more like a political rally. They said Obama is not likely to mention his opponent, presumptive Republican nominee John McCain, but they would not say whether he will criticize the policies of George W. Bush...
...made an effort to transcend his limitations and become a musician as well as a pianist. He succeeded as well as he could. He was not as cosmopolitan as his great rival Arthur Rubinstein, nor would he ever fool anybody into thinking he was Artur Schnabel, the apostle of German-style ''depth.'' The Columbia disks, all solo, are rife with puckish renditions of Scarlatti sonatas and Schubert impromptus that sometimes verge on eccentricity, and of Beethoven sonatas and Schumann fantasies that often threaten to collapse beneath their own structural weight. The highlight of the set is his 1965 Carnegie Hall...
...ever present bodyguards, apparently took place last year during his summer vacation in an isolated area of the central Apennines in the Abruzzi region, 75 miles east of Rome. No one is saying just who in the group took a few pictures, but they first appeared in the West German and Italian weeklies Bunte and Gente this month. According to the reports, John Paul met no one, indulged his nostalgia for the mountains of his native Poland and returned refreshed...
...furor and led to strong protests from the U.S., Britain and France, which still have authority as the occupying powers in the Western part of the city. Some embassies even ordered their diplomats to take a circuitous route to West Berlin in order to avoid confrontations with the East German border guards. Last week the East Germans climbed down from their original stand. The Foreign Ministry announced that diplomats in East Berlin would receive new identity cards that are to be shown when the officials cross between Soviet- occupied East Berlin and the Western sector. The government insisted that there...
...recitals of the piano sonatas were like religious services, and his editions of the music were admired for their combination of scholarship and pragmatism. The concerto recordings were made between 1932 and 1935, at the height of Schnabel's interpretive powers. Probity is the operative word here; the German notion of ''depth'' had no greater exponent than Schnabel. (A footnote in Schnabel's sonata edition could ramble for several inches discussing the difference between an appoggiatura and a semiquaver.) Yes, some of the runs in the ''Emperor'' are a bit mussy, but the pianist's earnest approach is informed...