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...would have never gone back to East Germany,this was it," said Heinz Schmidt, a railway workerfrom Magdeburg who spent eight days in a tent withhis wife and teen...
...Bloomington, Indiana, where he is a professor at Indiana University. He keeps an active schedule of engagements with such orchestras as the Cleveland, the Philadelphia, and the New York Philharmonic. He has also appeared with such ensembles as the Julliard and the Guarneri string quartets. A native of Magdeburg, Germany, Pressler fled to Israel with his family before World War II. Currently 56 years old, he launched his music career at age 17, when he traveled to San Francisco and won the Claude Debussy competition...
...sometimes miscasts his operas, Bing says: "Casting an opera at the Met is easy. If you want to do a Lucia, then you know you have to get Sutherland. If it's Turandot, then you get Nilsson. Ah, but if you're trying to cast Lucia in Magdeburg, Germany, and you have six sopranos who can sing it, then you have to know something about music." More reasonable is the complaint that Bing has failed to bring along enough first-rate conductors. He contends that "there are few really distinguished conductors around, but the shortage at the Metropolitan...
...with the West-and the poor quality of the goods must share much of the blame. A plant in the town of ZellaMehlis, for example, sent roller bearings to India, but had the whole shipment refused and returned because it was of inferior quality. A marine-engine factory in Magdeburg that makes cooling systems for export has gained a reputation for producing faulty equipment, including a shipment of engines that broke down shortly after arriving in Turkey...
...visit, Gromyko professed to be delighted to discover that the French accepted the existence of two Germanys. Though the French mumbled a denial later, the Germans were unconvinced-and an angry Strauss expostulated that "he who today renounces Breslau and Stettin will renounce Leipzig and Magdeburg tomorrow, and quite certainly Berlin the day after tomorrow...