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Proceeds from his memoirs, Ein Leben (A Life), have helped Heartbreaker and Transplanter Christiaan Barnard to entertain his beautiful young fiancee in jet-set elegance. But the woman scorned, ex-Wife Louwtjie Barnard, 47, says those memoirs occasionally lapse into pure -or impure-invention. For instance, Barnard's recollection that he had left his wife's bed on their wedding night and watched a televised boxing match instead. Louwtjie told reporters in Munich that the surgeon "never was a gentleman," adding, "but I always was a lady." She had a final warning...
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...
...Arias (The Bach Aria Group, conducted by William Scheide; Decca). One of the nation's finest chamber groups, including Soprano Eileen Farrell and Tenor Jan Peerce, offers masterful performances of some little-known arias and duets from the Bach cantatas. At least two of them-Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata 187 and Wenn kommt der Tag from Cantata 70-deserve a place on any Bach shelf...