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...opening night's performance had been worthy of both the moment and the surroundings. Instead, it was prosaically conducted by Wolf-Dieter Hauschild and, with the exception of Bass-Baritone Theo Adam's noble Hermit, provincially sung by an all East European cast. The Freischutz production further suffered from Joachim Herz's relentlessly proletarian staging. The first great German romantic opera and a major influence on Wagner, Freischutz is the story of a forester, Max, who almost falls into the devil's clutches trying to regain his lost marksmanship and win the hand of his beloved Agathe. In Herz...
...accused Kohl of supporting German groups that oppose the postwar division of Europe. "The imperialist circles in West Germany," the official Communist Party daily declared, "are now dreaming of the liquidation of East Germany−if not today, then tomorrow." Pravda published an equally harsh attack on General Hans-Joachim Mack, NATO's Deputy Supreme Allied Commander, noting that "European nations remember perfectly well what these typically German generals brought them 45 years ago." There have been no signs that the campaign is about...
...CHRONICLE OF THE LODZ GHETTO, 1941-1944 Edited by Lucjan Dobroszycki; translated by Richard Lourie, Joachim Neugroschel and others; Yale; 551 pages...
...piece, but the real surprise here is the cadenzas by Alfred Schnittke, a contemporary Soviet composer championed by Kremer. Schnittke's adventurous interludes are a modern commentary on Beethoven's themes and provide a welcome, if at first startling, respite from the usual cadenzas by Joseph Joachim and Fritz Kreisler. This is avant-garde Beethoven with a vengeance that causes the listener to sit up and pay attention to the music. It's about time. -By Michael Walsh
...Nazi Bierabends (get-togethers over beer) organized for the press by Alfred Rosenberg, the official Nazi philosopher. Hermann Göring would circulate, fat, affable and crude; then came the Führer's "somewhat dim-witted 'deputy,' " Rudolf Hess; then the "vain, pompous, incredibly stupid" Joachim von Ribbentrop, who was to be Foreign Minister. Shirer recalls being dumbfounded by Bernhard Rust, the Nazi Education Minister, a bureaucratic ideologue who explained the difference between serious, careful, Aryan physics and the degenerate Jewish physics, as represented by the mountebank Einstein...