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These sacred choral works number among Bach's most perfect compositions. Hanns-Martin Schneidt conducts instruments and the Regensburg Cathedral Choir, all in glistening voice...
Frank lives for pole vaulting. He holds a B.S. in the sport from Regensburg (Ohio) College, having just passed with a leap of 10 ft. His ambition in life is to clear the bar at 12 ft. After World War II, during which he managed 10 ft. 6 in. outside a castle in Germany, Frank becomes a balding fixture at all the local meets back home. Competing with a bamboo pole years after everyone else has switched to fiber glass, he achieves his goal at age 45. But the pole snaps and Frank is skewered to death on its splinters...
...Died. Prince Franz Joseph Maria La-moral, 78, who as Duke of Thurn and Taxis was Germany's wealthiest nobleman and the patriarch of one of Europe's oldest families; of a heart attack; in Regensburg, West Germany. The godson of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef and titular head of the clan that introduced the international postal system to Europe in the 16th century, the prince presided over a billion-dollar financial empire that includes Germany's third biggest private bank and vast stretches of latifundia in Bavaria, Canada and Brazil. One of the last Continental nobles...
...voters, prompting Bonn's usually pro-C.D.U. General-Anzeiger to note acidly that "an earlier visit certainly would have saved the Berliners many hours of hopelessness.'' The Chancellor had, critics pointed out. found time at the height of the crisis to drop down to Regensburg for an election rally...
...architect, Altdorfer built Regensburg's wine stalls, meat market, fortifications and slaughterhouse. In painting The Birth of Mary he exercised his architectural imagination by transferring the drama to the ambulatory of a cathedral. The soaring, wheeling and descending composition brings Bach's music irresistibly to mind...