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...Munich, artists go to the Cafe Grossenvahn. So do the musicians, poets, actors, homosexuals, and foreigners. The regulars all know each other, and people wander from table to table greeting friends. Everyone discusses art-art and politics, art and money, art and friendship. Towering above the smoke and the wooden tables, a papier-mache man with chicken-wire hands stares at people as they walk in. The man wears black clothes and one gold carring. One of the waiters built...
...Haydn Trio No. 27 and the Brahms Piano Quartet No. 1, with guest violist Samuel Rhodes. The group will then be joined by bassist Georg Hortnagel for a performance of the famous Schubert "Trout" quintet, an all-time favorite among chamber music lovers. Hortnagel is flying in from Munich just for this special occasion...
...itself of that reputation, the center for many years made an effort not to do any government work. There has been one recorded exception to this rule: In the early 1950s the center undertook a project to study Soviet society for the Air Force, sending 20 interviewers to Munich to interview nearly 1900 former Soviet citizens...
...regard this effort not as a questionable field of study nor as a political concession..." words directed at those who harbor doubts about its validity as a discipline or the justification for its existence. Dean Rosovsky, after all, has described the birth of Afro-Am as "an academic Munich." Perhaps it is just an honest omission, but nowhere does Bok assert a commitment to the Afro-Am Department. Or perhaps he wants to avoid stating his commitment to a department that might be phased into an interdisciplinary committee, the future some undergraduates fear for Afro...
DIED. Karl Richter, 54, German conductor, harpsichordist and organist who founded the Munich Bach Choir and Orchestra, through which he became internationally known for his rigorous, emotional interpretations of Bach and as a leader of the Bach-Handel revival of the '50s and '60s; of a heart attack; in Munich. Richter, who in recent years was himself labeled a romantic by more severely "authentic" Bach interpreters, attributed the zeal for authenticity to "a certain snobbishness" and said: "As a whole, properly performed, Bach always will stay right in the spirit of the present...