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...wonder boys" thrown up by Germany's postwar economic miracle, none rose faster or higher than jowly Willy Schlieker (rhymes with bleaker), 48. Born in the slums of Hamburg, Schlieker started out as a clerk in a law court, at 28 was chief of wartime steel allocation for the Nazi government. After the war, capitalizing on his Ruhr contacts, Schlieker built up a steelmaking, shipbuilding and trading empire that last year grossed $200 million. Last week, two months after he had been featured on TV as one of Germany's richest men, the bottom fell out for Willy...
Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 is rarely played in the concert hall-and even more rarely played well. But Bach himself would have been pleased with last week's performance by the Hamburg Chamber Orchestra, and the Hamburg Musikhalle echoed to a stamping, shouting ovation. The orchestra had provided a dividend: playing the fiendishly difficult trumpet part was perhaps the best classical trumpeter in Europe-the North German Radio Orchestra's pint-sized (5 ft. 1 in.), portly (187 Ibs.) Adolf Scherbaum...
...octave higher than written-just as a hobby." The hobby, Scherbaum thinks, helped him develop the breath control and facial muscles necessary for the baroque trumpet. Hired by Furtwangler as solo trumpet for the Berlin Philharmonic. Scherbaum returned to Czechoslovakia after World War II in 1951 settled in Hamburg, where he quickly became the highest paid and most famous member of the North German Radio Orchestra...
...late Ernst Thalmann, Germany's famous Red boss, in 1927. After years of underground work for the Comintern, he announced his disillusionment with Communism in 1942, decided to try for a Socialist seat in West Germany's first Bundestag in 1949. The district Wehner fought, was Hamburg-Harburg, a tough workers' area where the Communists were strong; he beat the Reds hands down, became the tough, unyielding voice of the Socialists' left wing in Parliament...
...Santa Fe Opera, the Hamburg Staatsoper and the New York City Ballet, the dancers and singers were preparing gala evenings in his honor. In Mexico City and Melbourne. Johannesburg. Moscow and Tel Aviv, symphony orchestras were tuning up for concerts to celebrate his birthday. Recordings of the old man's music were at full flood, and the British Broadcasting Corp. was boldly planning a year's project to play all 102 of his works. But as he neared his 80th birthday, in company with another of the century's great creators (see ART), Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky...