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...more than "a penis with a heart." He tackles such perennial barroom brain twisters as whether the zebra's stripes are white on black or black on white (his answer: the latter). He provides refreshing new studies of some of the founding fathers of geology and paleontology, including Nicolaus Steno, James Hutton and Louis Agassiz. He even takes time out to discourse on an evolutionary oddity called atavism: the inexplicable reappearance of long-lost characteristics in a species, like extra toes in horses and teeth in chicken...
...documents seem too humble and haphazard for Hitler: the bindings vary, only one of the covers is embossed with the gold letters AH, and most are bound in black imitation leather. Scoffs Nicolaus von Below, Hitler's Luftwaffe adjutant: "Imitation leather? For Hitler there was real leather or nothing...
Across the Rinne, Gluck's triumph is likely to spread far, for opera is becoming increasingly fashionable. At Esterház, for example, where Franz Josef Haydn serves as Kapellmeister to Prince Nicolaus the Magnificent, the composer has been asked to stop writing chamber music for the prince to play on his baryton viol and to drill his 22- man orchestra in opera. Among those who heard Haydn was Archduke Ferdinand, who commissioned him to compose an opera, La Vera Costanza, to be staged in Vienna later this year...
HAYDN: DIVERTIMENTI FOR BARYTON, VIOLA AND CELLO (Nonesuch). Because his patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, liked to play a hollow-necked, stringed instrument called the baryton, Haydn composed at least 125 divertimenti for it, of which five are exhumed by the Salzburger Baryton Trio. To many ears, the recording will be an eloquent argument for keeping the twangy viol locked in museums...
Missing Heiress. The eight operas, created for the court theater of Haydn's patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, are mostly free-wheeling romps, light on drama but buoyed by richly melodious scores. Le Pescatrici is a kind of seagoing Cinderella. A handsome prince moors his ship at a small fishing village. He is in search of the long-lost heiress to the Benevento throne, who was spirited away as a baby, after her father's assassination. For reasons of state, the prince wants to marry her. Two fisherwomen immediately claim to be the princess, fall all over themselves seeking...