Word: leben
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 4 (Columbia). This glorious work contains Mahler's song "Das himmlische Leben," and George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra recreate the Teutonic paradise. Judith Raskin, who sings the three soprano solos, sounds warm and free, yet her precise technique never allows a hint of bombast. "St. Cecilia with all her relatives are the excellent court musicians," goes the final refrain of the song, and the Cleveland and Miss Raskin could not be better described...
...establishing the Sitz im Leben (life situation) of individual Gospel passages, form critics conclude that some can be judged factual accounts - but others are clearly not to be taken literally as records of events in Jesus' life. Many form critics agree that the detail-laden narratives of Jesus' Passion are derived from eyewitness accounts. But the story of the Magi, and Matthew's account (27: 51-53) of the disturbances that took place in Jerusalem after Jesus' death, appear to be folk tales that were devised to impress the faithful with the magnitude of underlying events...
...simply because the main square in every West German town is called Adenauerplatx. And in the West, textbooks cannot be revised with such facility as on the Other Side. Keeping Adenauer is convenient, and for the Germans, as Mrs. Reiff points out in Chapter 9, anything das macht das Leben viel leichter is of primary importance...