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Asked if he felt indebted to Russia for helping crush the Hungarian uprising in 1848, Austria's Prince Schwarzenberg replied, "Austria will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude." So will Haiti...
Herrnstein grew up in New York City, the child of Hungarian immigrants. He attended the City College of New York before earning a graduate degree from Harvard in 1955. After serving in the Army for three years he joined the Harvard faculty...
...then on, his career went into free fall. He quarreled with his other Middle East patrons and fled to Eastern Europe, where his flamboyant habits alienated his hosts. On a tape filmed with a hidden camera in Budapest in 1980, he can be seen arguing in Russian with a Hungarian security official, who told him, "Evacuate your operational base in our territory...
Perhaps not too surprisingly, it is in the ancillary "filler" pieces where Haitink really shines with surprising passion - the Tragic and Academic Festive Overtures, the two serenades, the Variations on a Theme by Haydn, and the only three Hungarian dances that Brahms rescored for orchestra. The two overtures have plenty of flair to spare, and the Hungarian dances, number one in particular, simply scintillate. Haitink gives sensitive accounts of both serenades, and the jaunty conclusion of the Serenade in D deserves special mention...
...statesman. He may know all the players, but he has a strain of intertwined parochialisms -- Republican strategist; Ayn Rand devotee; Wall Street forecaster; writer of letters for special pleaders like Keating. It isn't the background of a great economic statesman. It's the profile of an Austro- Hungarian court figure...