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Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (Richard Ellsasser; Hamburg Philharmonia conducted by Arthur Winograd; M-G-M). A highly colored work that finds Composer Poulenc at his most charming. It is tuneful, with moments of surrealist shiftiness, brooding melancholy, sheer pyrotechnics. The disk has excessive surface noise...
...German cities rose on Anne Frank. At West Berlin's Schlosspark Theater, a packed opening climaxed the city's Cultural Festival. At the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf in the rich Ruhr, the elegant opening drew a crowd in black tie and bare shoulders. Other theaters-in Hamburg, Karlsruhe. Konstanz, Aachen and East Germany's Dresden-were jammed...
Taxes & Dividends. Before World War II, Germany had a central stock exchange in Berlin. Now there are eight independent regional exchanges-in Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Munich, Hamburg, Berlin, Stuttgart, Hanover and Bremen-which traded $1.5 billion worth of stocks and bonds last year v. only $200 million in 1951. Twice since 1948 Diüsseldorf's stock and bond traders have been forced to move into bigger quarters because trading has grown...
...which carried recruiting appeals. At dances, girls refused to dance with soldiers; it was demeaning, one girl explained. Every day, there were new incidents in which civilians had assaulted and roughed up some hapless recruit. Soldiers were jeered in the streets, had insignia ripped off their uniforms. In a Hamburg restaurant, a brawl started when civilian customers yelled at three soldiers: "Why don't you get a decent job and stop living on our taxes?" One German unit reported that seven out of every ten of its men had been either insulted or attacked physically...
...famed Edinburgh Festival was bottom-heavy with big-name performers -the Royal Philharmonic and Boston Symphony orchestras, the Hamburg State Opera and Sadler's Wells Ballet-as well as big-name composers-Beethoven, Brahms, Bach, Mozart. But hidden in a corner of the old city, not officially part of the festival, was a tiny, six-member U.S. troupe putting on three tiny U.S. operas in the Y.W.C.A.'s Gartshore Hall (capacity: 165). The troupe: Manhattan's After Dinner Opera Co., out to show Europe what could be done on a shoestring...