Word: mainzer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mathis der Maler, the symphonies Symphonische Tänze and Die Harmonic der Welt) has established him as Germany's greatest living composer. But, at 67, he has not lost his ironic touch. He was still exercising it last week as he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Der Mainzer Umzug (The Mainz Procession), a new work that may rank with his very best...
...cantata is scored for three vocal soloists, a chorus and orchestra, and is based on the Fastnacht, or pre-Lenten festival, for which Mainz is famous. The text, partly by Hindemith and partly by Playwright Carl Zuckmayer, has the soprano and tenor soloists singing only in Mainzer dialect while the baritone sings in high German. Soprano and tenor are supposed to be watching an imaginary Fastnacht procession passing before them as they face the audience, and in the roles of low comics exchange opinions with the baritone about the history of Mainz. The exchange gives Hindemith the chance...