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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 (the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jo-chum conducting; Capitol-Telefunken, 4 sides LP). Bruckner himself called this work his "Tragic Symphony"; the tragedy is that he did not make it a little shorter and less repetitious. Performance and recording: fair...
...burghers found themselves thrust into an atmosphere of sex and schnapps. From all over Germany eager opportunists rushed to Celle to help make the G.I.s happy. Jazz bands filled the town with boogie-woogie. A hundred new bars opened up. Taxi drivers came from as far away as Hamburg to work in Celle. They took meters off, charged $5 to nearby Fassberg airport, where the Air Force men worked. Black marketeers wandered the nighttime streets mumbling: "Whaddaya...
...German technicians gathered in the long, yellow-walled conference hall were talking about the same thing: Why did I come here? Said a heavy-machinery expert from Hamburg: "I want to know why a Christian of one faith feels like a stranger in the church of another. If there is but one God, why must we worship Him in different ways?" A trade unionist from Essen asked whether "the churches can do anything to help bridge the gap between employer and employee." A shutter designer from the Rolleiflex factory in Braunschweig asked: "Why must so many community pastors be stuffy...
...Dimension. During the days that followed, there were other discussions and other lectures skillfully guided by the Akademie's directors, bespectacled Adolf Wischmann and husky Johannes Doehring. For their technician "students" they steered the talk again & again to the relation between religion and technology. Deliberately inviting controversy, a Hamburg theology professor suggested that technology was a threat to mankind. Asked a young toolmaker: "How would the professor have come so speedily from Hamburg to address this Christian meeting if technicians hadn't developed cars and railroad trains?" "The professor is right," said a shop foreman. "We must...
Before 1950 was over, the black, red and gold flag of the West German Federal Republic would fly from masts on the seven seas. Commenting on the amazingly swift change in Hamburg's mood, a Hamburg-Amerika Line official said: "I guess that we just decided we'd been in the restaurant business long enough...