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...primary and secondary school teachers have abandoned their blackboards. In six years, 5,107 doctors, dentists and veterinarians left the country. Among last week's crop of refugees were an airport director, the technical director of the big nationalized steel plant at Thale, and the chief doctor of Leipzig University's surgical clinic (his predecessor fled to the West seven months...
Wagner: The Complete Piano Works (Bruce Hungerford, pianist; The Bayreuth Festival Master Classes, Inc., 2 LPs). All that survives of Wagner's small output for solo piano is seven pieces, three of them written during his Leipzig student days, when he was 18. Although the early exercises in this first recording reveal a Wagner with an ear still attuned to Beethoven, Mozart and Schubert, the later pieces-Arrival at the Black Swans (1861), Album Leaf for Betty Schott (1875)-sound intriguing, Tristan-like echoes of the curving melody that surges through his operas...
...Leon Page of Coolidge, Ariz. My own flack had unfortunately broken down and the good doctor was kind enough to allow me to use his until mine was repaired. Dr. Page's flack is a much better one than my own, having been made in Leipzig by Gustav Schmidt, an old master flackmaker. Leipzig, as you know, was for years the flack center of the world...
...most esteemed musical post in Germany, that of cantor to the St. Thomas Church Choir in Leipzig, is also the oldest: the first incumbent moved into the job in 1212. For 27 years (1723 to 1750) Johann Sebastian Bach himself directed the choir that has since become the chief custodian of his music. But in the last 3½ years, since scholarly Kurt Thomas took over as choirmaster, there have been persistent reports that the East German government has been trying to force the Thomaner to sing to a Communist tune. Last week Cantor Thomas fled to West Germany, taking...
...tour sched uled for the summer of 1957 was canceled over Thomas' violent protests. The Reds tried to pressure Thomas into performing fewer religious works, and objected to one of his own compositions because it contained the line, "Let us all praise God united." The Leipzig city assembly suggested that in the future the choir perform "songs of the new era." Finally, last week, the choir's long-planned tour of West Germany was abruptly canceled, and Thomas decided he had had enough. Said he in West Berlin: "I hope my decision may serve as an alarm signal...