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...Columbia). Conductor Robert Craft, long-established as a specialist in the modern repertory, remains a masterful interpreter of Schoenberg's music. The CBC Symphony is cool and clear in performances of Pelleas and Melisande, Prelude to the Genesis Suite, Three Little Orchestra Pieces, Variations for Orchestra and Verkliirte Nacht-which Schoenberg wrote as a string sextet in 1899 and revised (for string orchestra) 44 years later...
Across no man's land comes the sound of Silent Night-"Stille nacht, heilige nacht. . ." The Germans toss over a boot containing a sprig of evergreen tied with red ribbon, a package of cigarettes, a piece of sausage. The Tommies toss back a Christmas pudding. Then, as the Tommies grab for their rifles, German soldiers appear at the back of the stage. They have a bottle of schnapps. The rifles go down. Everybody drinks. Up in the light bulbs it says: ONE HALF OF BRITISH EXPEDITIONARY FORCE WIPED...
...world there are probably only 15 tenors capable of stepping stage center in the second act of Tristan und Isolde and belting out "Seine eitle Pracht, seinen prahlenden Schein verlacht, wem die Nacht den Blick geweig't." Three of the 15 sing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, a house that rightly prides itself on the size of its singing lineup. But last week, on the eve of a performance of Tristan starring new Soprano Birgit Nilsson (TIME. Dec. 28), the Met's three Heldentenore suddenly found themselves out of voice, the victims of winter colds. (The fact...
...debut last week Mezzo Hoffman displayed a veteran's easy stage presence and a wide-ranging voice that floated purely though somewhat colorlessly in its upper register, darkened richly in its lower one. The haunting warning Einsam wachend in der Nacht in Act II had a texture soft as velvet, but with resonant carrying power. Her characterization in one of opera's most thankless roles was skillfully subdued, came as a welcome relief from the histrionics with which other Brangänes sometimes worry the Met's stage. All in all, it was a welcome and memorable...
...becomes increasingly clear that the most important function of Nürnberg was the amassing of a vast amount of firsthand evidence on exactly what activated the Third Reich. It was Hitler's idea that the whole Nazi organization would, like millions of its victims, dis, appear into Nacht und Nebel (night and fog) if he failed, and to.this end, just : before the finish of World War II, the records of his infamous regime were deliberately and almost totally destroyed. The International Military Tribunal, by collecting surviving documents, confessions of leading participants and the evidence of witnesses and victims...