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Hosannas. Until his arrival the Chicago, heavy with German tradition, was known as a great orchestra that only rarely gave a great performance. Now it is an ensemble that Solti can (as he did two seasons ago) take into such musical bastions as Vienna, Berlin and Hamburg, and win standing ovations from the public and hosannas from the stuffiest critics. The money for that European tour was raised largely by Symphony Board Chairman Louis Sudler, as part of a campaign to publicize the board's selection of Solti. That choice was made, says Sudler, a Chicago realtor...
Mengers was born in Hamburg, Germany, to Jewish parents who fled to Utica, N.Y., in 1938. Her father committed suicide when Sue was eleven, and she and her mother moved to The Bronx. She went to a lot of movies, developed fantasies about becoming a star. Once, she attended a drama class. "Everyone there was better looking and more talented. My practical streak told me 'there goes that dream...
...specific example of aesthetic conservatism, Kaiser said, the most interesting theatrical events in Central Europe last year were two productions in West Berlin of Prinz Friedrich von Hamburg by Heinrich von Kleist (17771811), a five-act romantic drama of heroism in battle and requited love. "Here we have a play that less than five years ago was rejected by the radical left. Suddenly that same play starts to fascinate young and old alike-so much so that it results in the most interesting theatrical evenings of the season...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
Could this be opera? Or even anti-opera? State Opera Director Rolf Liebermann clearly thought it belonged in an opera house; he commissioned the piece, called Kyldex 1, as the 23rd and final new work to open under his imprimatur at Hamburg (he now moves to the Paris Opera). So did the man who created Kyldex, Parisian Kinetic Artist Nicolas Schöffer, 60, who spoke of his audiovisual creation as "a new step on the road toward communication and the socialization...