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...seams show, and the intended grandeur is painfully strained. On the other hand, a charming violin fantasy anticipates Debussy. And the songs--which were written mostly between 1861 and 1864 (though the moving Prayer to Life dates from 1882) and set to poems by Nietzsche himself, Ruckert, Pushkin and others--are genuinely affecting...
...know that the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche was also a composer of some accomplishment, and two new CDs should introduce his music to a wider audience. One CD consists of 16 works for the piano, while the other disc contains 16 songs set to poems by Nietzsche, R?ckert, Pushkin and others. Most of the pieces on both CD's were composed in Nietzsche's youth, between 1861 1864. The piano works show a definite lack of formal training but a "true melodic gift," says TIME reviewer Elliott Ravetz, and the songs are "genuinely affecting...
...Some of the most celebrated of these works, a collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings, will go on display this week at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. The exhibit comes on the heels of another display of looted art mounted a few weeks ago by the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. These exhibitions have renewed an emotional, historically charged debate over what should be done with art looted by Soviet troops from the former territory of Nazi Germany at the end of World...
...situation was further complicated when Moscow's Pushkin Museum beat the Hermitage to the punch by setting up in February a hastier and less focused show of Impressionist paintings, together with some older ones by Goya, El Greco and others. Its director, Irina Antonova, a cultural bureaucrat in the traditional Soviet style, made no suggestion that these works were going anywhere after the show-least of all to Germany. "Soviet troops saved these artworks, while the fascists wrecked ours," she declared at a press conference. "We deserve some form of compensation...
...Trophy art" is a preposterous euphemism, suggesting the stuff was awarded to the victors in some noble contest involving shields and javelins. But for full-blown hypocrisy, it would be hard to outdo director Antonova's title for the Pushkin show: "Twice Saved"--as though its pictures had undergone some religious conversion by being dragged off to Mother Russia, "saved" by conservators after being "saved" previously by the Red Army in what she called "an act of heroism." Maybe some of these objects would have been burned to ashes or blown to pieces if they had remained in Germany...