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Antidissident activity has also been heavy lately in other East bloc states, most notably Czechoslovakia. There, the particular target of Party Chief Gustav Husak's secret police is the movement that has grown over the past three years around Charter 77, a human rights manifesto signed by 1,000 people. Last month six Charter 77 organizers, among them Playwright Vaclav Havel, received sentences of up to five years for "subversion of the republic." Since then more than 25 Charter 77 signers have been hauled in for questioning on various trumped-up charges, including attempts to blow up a Prague...
...move among its ranks as animating spirits. Opera in Vienna goes back to the early days of the form, when the city's cultivated imperial courts began attracting major composers, starting with Gluck. Today the company can work from scores personally annotated by Strauss and another former director, Gustav Mahler. Such authenticity in itself is no guarantee of quality, but to the performances last week in Washington it added a living spark of history. Washington, as history-minded a city as any in the U.S., responded ardently. Shivering against the predawn chill off the Potomac, buffs began lining...
...will face the unusually intense musical politics that have made Vienna the bane of conductors. So great is the municipal love of music that even the orchestra members, drawn from the Vienna Philharmonic, can be merciless to leaders they do not respect. In this century alone, three illustrious predecessors-Gustav Mahler, Karl Bohm and Herbert von Karajan-all threw down batons and left in their huffs before their contracts were due to expire...
...Moscow's growing doubts about Dubcek's fealty. The plan failed, and Dubcek was brutally ousted later that year. Svoboda, who retained his office until 1975, managed to wrest Dubcek and other liberal officials from Soviet custody but agreed in return to support the puppet regime of Gustav Husak, his successor...
Birmingham's Dakotiana contain many anecdotes, including one about Tchaikovsky, who thought that the entire building belonged to Music Publisher Gustav Schirmer. "No wonder we composers are so poor," he wrote in his diary. "Mr. Schirmer is rich beyond dreams. He lives in a palace bigger than the Czar's!" There was also old Miss Leo, who lived in a 17-room apartment with her favorite carriage horse, stuffed and mounted, and Princess Mona Faisal, who, when asked her occupation, wrote "Saudi Arabia...