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...rest of the program was more conventional--some Tompkins and Morley, sounding boxy and if it needed a chorus one quarter the size of the tour group, some incongrously Western-sounding "Asian" songs, and choruses from La Reine Indigo, by Johann Strauss, Jr. The saving grace of these choruses were some absurdly ornate soprano solos, masterfully executed by Carlotta Wilsen. Like the other successful pieces on the program, the Strauss was impressive primarily for its animation and coherence; when Asian Tour 1967 achieves these qualities more consistently it will be a fine performing group...
...TIME says the aphorism on Mr. Gardner's desk, "Das Beste ist gut genug," Is by an "unknown" writer. Actually, it is by the not entirely unknown German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. In his Italienische Reise (Italian Journey'), we find: "In der Kunst ist das Beste gut genug" (In art the best is good enough...
...week the paintings were up on walls again, this time in Washington's National Gallery. On view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people, can be D.P.s...
...this week to talk with Charles de Gaulle and arrange a meeting between the French President and Kiesinger in early January. The Christian Democrats' Gerhard Schroder, who served as Foreign Minister under Erhard, arrived at the Defense Ministry just after the Luftwaffe's new commander, Lieut. General Johann Steinhoff, grounded the service's 769 Starfighters following the 65th crash of the U.S.-designed fighter-bomber. He and Steinhoff agreed that the planes should not fly again until they are outfitted with improved ejection seats...
...several recent productions of Georg Buechner's cryptic drama Woyzeck, I still cannot understand the fascination it holds for young directors. Buechner died at 23 in 1837. He left behind, among other writings, a jumbled, partly illegible manuscript of an unfinished play based on the real-life case of Johann Christian Woyzeck, an army barber executed in 1824 for the murder of his mistress. The order of scenes in this manuscript is indeterminate; some scenes are mere fragments. The ending of the play is unclear. The dialogue in both the German original and most translations borders on psychotic gibberish...