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This week West Germans will have an opportunity to examine yet another side of Kolář's talent at Bremen's Overbeck Gesellschaft Gallery, which will display 180 examples of his "poems of object." The show will move on to Ulm and Munich, and Manhattan's Willard Gallery plans to exhibit his work this spring. It is memorable not only be cause Kolář reveals himself as a gifted collagist, but also because contemporary artists with any degree of originality at all have conspicuously failed to develop in Communist countries...
...Thereafter, the 19th century treated him with a mixture of veneration and desecration. His choral works were frequently performed, but with muddy-sounding 1,000-voice choirs and thick, brass-bottomed orchestras. His original scores were collected over a period of 50 years for the definitive 60-volume Bach-Gesellschaft edition of his works, completed in 1900 (a new, even more complete edition is now under way). But they contained few indications of tempo, dynamics or phrasing, so many publishers continued to issue altered, expanded and "improved" editions. Gounod thought nothing of using the C Major Prelude from The Well...
...ceremonies, so reminiscent of the dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
...Even so, Americans and West Germans have al ways suffered, while enjoying progressively greater comforts, from the conviction that they should utilize their material prosperity for higher ends. To meet the demand, Lyndon Johnson prescribed the Great Society. Last week Ludwig Erhard called for the Teutonic equivalent: die formierte Gesellschaft -literally, the formed, well-ordered or harmonious society...
...Chancellor's ambitious plans for the formierte Gesellschaft face formidable obstacles. Under the German constitution, such fiscal reform would have to be approved by the Lander, then gain a two-thirds majority in the Bundestag. Erhard is the first to admit that his ambitious proposals cannot-and should not-be imposed on the nation by fiat. Instead, he contemplates the use of simple public exhortation to civic responsibility-the Seelenmassage (soul massage) that he has used for years to win over West Germans to his programs for social betterment through economic reforms...