Word: hamburger
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...Carnegie report has no shortage of recommendations -- from improved prenatal instruction for expectant mothers to four-month paid parental leave for all employees -- and Dr. David Hamburg, the foundation's president, says he intends to be a "pebble in the national shoe" until something gets done...
...David A. Hamburg, president of the CarnegieCorporation of New York, received the firstRadcliffe College Charter Medallion Saturday...
...would not have achieved its current prestige without Dohnanyi, who arrived in 1984 after having worked his way up the traditional German opera-house ladder. Beginning with the Frankfurt Opera, where he was Georg Solti's assistant, Dohnanyi spent time in Lubeck, Cologne and finally his adopted hometown of Hamburg before heading to the shores of Lake Erie. He has ended any doubts about his abilities as a symphonic conductor with performances that combine Szell's rigor, Boulez's unerring ear and a controlled interpretative fire...
Postmodern directors have been shaking up grand opera for quite a while, especially in European cities like Hamburg, where this production was first unveiled in 1990. But rarely has opera received a shaking like this. The victim is Carl Maria von Weber's Der Freischutz (The Free-Shooter). First performed in 1821, it was the granddaddy of all German Romantic operas, with its setting of a folktale about a forester who accepts magic bullets from the Devil to win the hand of his beloved in a shooting contest. For Waits, Burroughs and Wilson, what the opera provided wasn...
...wonderfully served by 12 actors (who mix German and English) from Hamburg's experimental Thalia Theater. As Kathchen, Annette Paulmann is truly incomparable: it's safe to say that nothing like her combination of sexuality and idiocy has ever been seen before. As Wilhelm, Stefan Kurt is equally good with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until...