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...Karl Richter, an organist and harpsichordist as well as conductor, creates a performance that combines operatic grandeur in the Dies Irae with the religious awe attending death that is heralded by the sepulchral drumbeats at the close of the Agnus Dei. The four first-class soloists (Maria Stader, soprano; Hertha Töpper, alto; John van Kesteren, tenor; Karl-Christian Kohn, bass) enter into the spirit of their conductor's classical conception: they never struggle to achieve Wagnerian eminence of tone but modestly blend into the musical architecture. The vocal texture of the Munich Bach Choir is glowingly transparent...
...blue U.S. Air Force bus grinds slowly up the hills of Sonnenberg, West Germany, between ancient gabled houses and the ruins of a castle. At the Konrad Duden elementary school, it discharges a noisy load of American grade-school children from nearby Wiesbaden. Minutes later they are answering Frau Hertha Viehweger's questions-in easy, fluent German...
...Hertha Schulze A.M. '59, of Minneapolis, Minn., was recently named one of the first recipients of the Foundation Graduate Theatre Thirteen graduate students in arts will spend the 1962-63 school year studying drama at the University of Minnesota and working at the Tyrone Theatre in Minneapolis under the of these fellowships...
...Janopoulo confesses to lacking the "special soul and the kind of conviction that passes across the footlights." Whatever its appeal, accompanying has attracted first-rate pianists, among them the U.S.'s Paul Ulanowsky and Franz Rupp, England's Geoffrey Parsons and Martin Isepp, Germany's Hertha Klust and Gerhard Weissenborn, Italy's Antonio Beltrami...
Within the limitations of this plot, the acting is superb. The teacher, played by Dorothea Wieck, is effective because she acts with amazing restraint. Hertha Thiele, as the tear-stained orphan, is occasionally coy, but she is usually anemic, thus revealing her psychological state. Director Leontine Sagan, however, pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that...