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About the same time, Composer Harris, the festival's executive director, touched Pittsburgh's modern Medici (the A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Howard Heinz Endowment, Edgar J. Kaufmann Charitable Trust) for most of the estimated $50,000 cost, got a 62-man international jury to select the world's most important composers...
...Hellabrunn horses are a modern throwback to that ancient breed-the end products of careful experiment. Unlike the average horseman, who works at improving the breed, Geneticist Heinz Heck, the Hellabrunn Zoo's director, has spent most of his professional life looking backward. He created the ersatz tarpans by reversing the process of evolution...
...Heinz Trökes of Germany owes a great debt to Switzerland's great Paul Klee. Trokes' Between Clouds and Crystals is gay as an awning and deft as a magician's trick, though neither so gay nor so deft as Klee could...
...lack of mass-production experience got the plant snarled up. In 1948, the British brought in Heinz Nordhoff, who, as boss of General Motors' Opel subsidiary in Brandenburg, Germany, had run the biggest prewar truck factory in Europe. Nordhoff inherited a weird setup. No one knew who owned the Volkswagen factory or who should get its profits. Technically built by the Nazis' German Labor Front, the money came from 300,000 "Volkswagen savers," who paid $2 a week in advance for the cars they never got. But Nordhoff didn't care who owned the factory. Said...
Debussy: Pelléas and Melisande (Suzanne Danco, Pierre Mollet, Heinz Rehfuss; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Ernest Ansermet; London, eight sides LP). Maeterlinck's fairy tale floating along the stream of Debussy's consciousness. The voices of the principals are all excellent and so is their French diction; Ansermet's subtle direction could scarcely be bettered...