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...years at Vienna's Academy of Music, he entered Britain's international conductors' competition at Liverpool, walked off with first prize. This launched him on a series of guest-conducting engagements throughout Europe. Back in the late 1950s, when the San Francisco Orchestra's conductor, Josef Krips, first heard Mehta in Vienna, he cried: "The next Toscanini has been born...
...things that have been going on," said Erhard, grimly puffing a thick cigar, "I thought it would be useful for us to get together." Several cigars and 90 minutes later, Adenauer more or less meekly picked up the phone and called his principal ally, former Defense Minister Franz Josef Strauss, advising him to do nothing that would aggravate the disunity of their party...
London Records was the first to exhume a number of its buried treasures, reissuing under the Richmond label such gems as George Szell conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Brahms's Third Symphony and the Mozart Requiem conducted by Josef Krips at the bargain-basement price of just $1.98 per record (formerly $4.98). Sales were brisk, so London reissued ten operas, including Renata Tebaldi in La Boheme and Madama Butterfly. Mercury followed London's lead, establishing its Wing label, featuring such surefire favorites as suites from Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Swan Lake ($1.98 for mono...
...Kennedy stressed the traditional and blood ties between Poland and the U.S., asking for help in building the "bridges of reconciliation" between eastern and western Europe. The spontaneous approval roared back by the crowds predictably ruffled official Polish feelings. At a dinner given by Ambassador Cabot, Deputy Foreign Minister Josef Winiewicz proposed a toast reminding Kennedy of "the strict political realism of our links with Socialism and with the Soviet Union...
Todd Drexel's Osric, while dandyish, punctilious and well-oiled, manages for once to avoid being effeminate. Josef Sommer's handling of the First Player's ancient Roman narrative need not, I think, be quite so rhetorical...