Word: hollweg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mozart: Mitridate, Re di Ponto (Sopranos Arleen Augér, Ileana Cotrubas and Edith Gruberova, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Werner Hollweg, Mozarteum Orchestra, Salzburg, Leopold Hager, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); La Clemenza di Tito (Mezzos Janet Baker and Yvonne Minton, Tenor Stuart Burrows, Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, Colin Davis, conductor; Philips; 3 LPs). Mozart composed Mitridate when he was only 14; La Clemenza came just before he died at 35. Both works are all but forgotten. They are opera seria, the early style of Italian opera that can present obstacles for the modern...
...extended instead to all of Indochina. By insisting upon the retention of the entire fabric of the old Selective Service Act at an annual cost of some 50-odd million dollars, he makes this promise absolutely meaningless. He apparently has no more respect for his promises than von Bethmann-Hollweg, as Chancellor, had for Germany's treaty obligation not to violate Belgium's neutrality during WWI, calling it "a mere scrap of paper...