Word: rainer
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...Rainer Eppelmann, a Lutheran pastor in East Berlin, said the doctrinaire regime must "talk with the people about their wishes and needs...
...behind their chairs. The program typically offered two New York premieres. In John Geist's edgy Fall from Grace, Kronos played live against the background of a tape of 18 string quartets prerecorded by the group. In Steven Mackey's Among the Vanishing, a setting of texts by poet Rainer Maria Rilke, the performers were joined by soprano Dawn Upshaw...
Tubingen's Rainer Riesner contends, for instance, that like most rabbis of his day, Christ probably preached in a pithy, aphoristic style that was likely to be faithfully remembered and recorded by his followers. "There is evidence that Jesus taught his disciples to recall his teachings by heart," says Methodist Thomas Oden of New Jersey's Drew Theological School. "We have the ipsissima verba, the exact words of Jesus. Why should they have been reported if they hadn't been actually remembered...
Facing Hammadi last week were the slain man's parents, Richard and Patricia Stethem, who appeared as co-plaintiffs for themselves and six passengers. The couple's lawyer, Rainer Hamm, stressed that though the process was taking place in the "wrong country" -- West Germany rather than the U.S. -- their presence in court was a "symbol of trust . . . toward the West German justice system." Hammadi entered no plea. His trial is expected to last at least a year...
...swinging sounds of Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller were banned in Nazi Germany as Allied decadence, but Hitler's henchmen were less punctilious when it came to propaganda. West German Jazz Historian Rainer Lotz this week releases his second album titled German Propaganda Jazz. The music was recorded in the 1940s by Charlie and His Orchestra, a 14-member swing band organized by Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Propaganda to spread the Nazi message via radio to Allied citizens and occupied Europe...