Word: munichs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Philips; 2 LPs). Telemann was the most prolific member of the 18th century avantgarde, showing in his thousand-odd works a radical tendency to abandon Bach-type counterpoint in favor of melody and accompanying harmony. His Passion is given its first recording by the Lausanne Youth Choir and the Munich Pro Arte Orchestra, led by Kurt Redel, who has made a distinguished specialty of baroque music...
...Even in Munich he has remained a power for Ludwig Erhard to reckon with because he heads the 50 delegates of the Christian Social Union, the C.D.U.'s affiliate in Bavaria. Nonetheless, as Strauss was re-elected C.S.U. leader in Munich last week amid the redolence of wurst, beer and cigar smoke, it was clear that Franz Josef was as imperial - and imperious - as ever, and a far less palatable Bavarian export than Löwenbr...
...MEISTERSINGER VON NüRNBERG (RCA Victor; 5 LPs). There is no single coruscating star unless it is Conductor Joseph Keilberth, who makes the long score snap with life rarely caught even when recorded, as this was, during a performance (the opening of the rebuilt National Theater in Munich). Basses Otto Wiener and Hans Hotter give their well-established interpretations as Hans Sachs and Veit Pogner, but the freshest voices belong to two Americans, Soprano Claire Watson as Eva and Tenor Jess Thomas as Walther...
...midnight the day before tickets went on sale, fans began lining up outside Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper. Was Callas singing? Tebaldi? Sutherland? None of them, but a Canadian-Greek girl named Anastasia Strataki, known in the world of the opera as Teresa Stratas...
...Munich heard her for the first time last year. Staatsoper's Director Rudolf Hartmann was so impressed by her performance that he staged last week's special La Traviata for her. Stratas did not let him down. Her singing of Verdi's virginal strumpet, Violetta, swept the packed house into a record 43 minutes of tumultuous applause. Raved the Süddeutsche Zeitung: "Stratas intuitively found everything that makes the part touching, the erotic flair of the doomed girl, the fire and despair of her heart. Her light, balanced soprano obeys each impulse: from tender lyricism...