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...Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (third son of Johann Sebastian) described the pitfalls of harpsichord playing, adding that a good harpsichord performer must have "das Schnellen" (the snap), achieved by imitating with one's fingers the leg action of a chicken scratching the ground. Despite such difficulties (experts figure that not one harpsichord player in a hundred had his Schnellen properly under control), the U.S. is in the grip of a major harpsichord boom, fostered by such players as Ralph Kirkpatrick, Sylvia Marlowe, Fernando Valenti and the late great Wanda Landowska...
Undivided Fame. For a professed cynic, Wilder was born at an unlikely time and place-the Johann Straussian Vienna of 1906. The son of a well-to-do restaurateur, Billy dodged law school at 19, signed on as a reporter for a Vienna daily. At 20, he was off to Berlin as a movie and drama reviewer. Not long afterward, he fell in love with a dancer and was fired for neglecting his work. Next thing he knew, Billy himself was dancing for his supper as a nightclub gigolo, and writing film scripts on the side. At 27, with...
...navigation system is a common phenomenon first articulated scientifically little more than 100 years ago, when Austrian Physicist Johann Christian Doppler noted that sound waves coming from a moving object increase in frequency as the source of the sound approaches an observer, decrease as it moves away. Thus, in what has become the standard example of the Doppler effect, a train whistle seems to rise and fall in pitch as the train goes by. Similarly, the signals from a satellite increase in frequency as they move nearer to a receiver on earth, diminish as they move on. By measuring...
...fault the performers. Tradition has it that all of the performers should lead exemplary lives. With the present cast, including Christ and Judas, this is notably not the case: they were members of the Nazi Party. The play's longtime director, 70-year-old Woodcarver George Johann Lang, offers an explanation: "I was a Nazi, and I was jailed for it for two years after the war. I hoped that the Nazis would bring order into the political and moral chaos that was Germany. Besides, one of the reasons I did the Passion play in 1934 under Hitler...
...credit side, and almost worth the price of admission, is Johann Strauss's delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...