Word: organizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Indeed, Diem's very close association with the American government has alienated Vietnamese nationalists almost as much as his dictactorial political control has alienated the intellectuals. Because the Viet Minn, the political organ of the Viet Cong guerrillas, claims to be a popular front, including the "progressive" bourgeoisie, peasants, and workers and attempts to appeal to nationalist as much as Communist sentiment, it has some common ground with the most dissatisfied of the urban middle class. But most of its strength comes from that part of the peasantry whose support the guerrillas have gained by combination of persuasion and terror...
...Wolfgang decided to take part time off from business to form his own or gan group, determined to bring the clean, cold, clear sound of the 18th century baroque organ to 20th century ears. Von Karajan's basic ensemble consists of three organs, fitted out with 6-ft.-high wood and metal pipes, and Wolfgang plays one of them himself. When necessary, Wolfgang and his associates are joined by flutists, oboists, violinists and viola players who trail behind the furniture van in a chauffeur-driven station wagon. Wandering from town to town, playing for anybody, the group has worked...
...well known as the Berlin Philharmonic's famous conductor, Herbert, but to Austrian and Bavarian chamber music fans he is every bit his younger brother's equal. For the past six years, he has blessed the countryside with his proudest achievement: the world's only traveling organ ensemble...
Polyphonal & Popular. Last time out, it was Munich's turn. Wolfgang and his troupe moved their instruments into the splendors of the Herkulessaal, disappeared behind the screen of organ pipes, and played through Bach's Art of the Fugue, the final composition of his life and a showcase of his innermost contemplations on polyphonal theory. Only at the end of their two-hr.-long performance did Wolfgang and his assistants appear to take crisply correct bows, and then they were off on the high road again...
Such evenings leave audiences aglow with delight and thundering applause, and Wolfgang basking in a sense of his mission. "We have found a new way of presenting organ music," he said, steering his van down the empty Autobahn. "My shop has become just a hobby; music is now my profession...