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...embarrassment occurred two days before the planned visit when 192 tourists left the Polish cruise liner Stefan Batory in Hamburg; many of them immediately began the quest for asylum. Their example was quickly followed. At week's end West German authorities reported that an additional 126 Poles had jumped ship from the ferry Rogalin when it docked in Travemünde, a town near the East German border...
...small world: Marco's friend Jake, a Russian Jew who came over on that same crowded boat, hears the tinkle of a ragtime piano while strolling through Harlem. Darned if it isn't Roscoe Haines (Ben Vereen), who helped Jake earn his passage to America back in Hamburg...
...director beginning this season, he seemed an unlikely choice. Christoph von who? The German-born conductor, 55, grandson of Hungarian Composer Ernst von Dohnányi, had made his career in Germany not principally as an orchestral maestro but as an opera conductor and administrator, most recently at the Hamburg State Opera. He had a reputation as a 20th century music specialist, a distinction that has little appeal at the American box office. By contrast, the Cleveland Orchestra is one of the proudest in the land. George Szell, who led it from 1946 until his death in 1970, made...
This was not the first time Domingo has tried Wagner. In 1968 he sang Lohengrin in Hamburg, and in 1976 he recorded Walther von Stolzing in Die Meistersinger. Despite the beauty of the singing, his voice was too light then to be fully convincing. Today, at 43, his tenor is darker and more baritonal, and he thus is open to experimentation with new roles and even with new careers. Later this month, for example, Domingo makes his Met debut as a conductor, leading Puccini's La Bohème, and he is currently appearing...
Lagerfeld, on the face of things, is used to being happy. Certainly he has had a lifetime of being rich. Born in Hamburg to an elegant Westphalian mother and a father who owned one of Europe's largest dairy companies, young Karl grew up in the countryside of Schleswig-Holstein, taught by tutors. When he was twelve, his mother went to Hamburg to inroll him in art school. Karl wanted to be a portrait painter, but the art school director pointed out that "your son isn't interested in art, he's only interested in clothes." Lagerfeld...