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This was not all. Famed Leipzig University (founded 1409) was rechristened Karl Marx University, and the Order of Karl Marx was established as the highest East German decoration (paralleling Russia's Order of Lenin...
...accomplished musician whose professors agreed that they had nothing further to teach her, and set off on her own, giving concerts throughout Europe. But Landowska had no desire to dazzle concert audiences in the accepted manner: "I have always been in revolt." Her beloved cantor of Leipzig, Bach-and his contemporaries-had vanished from the piano repertory. Instead, performers who believed that the old master had no notion of the keyboard's capabilities served up a hybrid fare under the names of Bach-Liszt, Bach-Tausig, or Bach-Bülow. "They put Bach, Mozart, Handel back...
...Communist side of the belt, at a rally in Leipzig of 100,000 members of the Free German Youth, blue-shirted German youngsters gathered beneath the strident flags and posters of Communism to cheer the "glorious Soviet army" and sing their newest song: Get Your Gluts, Comrades. East Germany, the Russians were assured, is doing everything possible "to develop the military qualifications of our youth." Meanwhile "police" recruiting was stepped up. East German factories were ordered to stop hiring men under 25. These were encouraged to join the police...
...violinist, his mother a pianist and Lyonel eventually became both. He was a shy and lonely boy who practiced four or five hours a day, then listened for hours more to his parents' performances. When he was 16, his father decided that he should continue his studies in Leipzig. But the professor his father wanted him to have was away. While waiting in Hamburg for his return, Lyonel drifted into studying...
...World War II became highly diary-conscious. It vigorously emphasized the traditional order forbidding front-line soldiers and officers to keep diaries. One of the men enforcing this order was granite-chinned Major General Robert W. Grow, who ably led the U.S. 6th Armored Division from Utah Beach to Leipzig...