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...tribute to German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, by all odds the world's finest lieder singer, who was to perform in the barn during the Touraine Festival in central France. It was also an act of self-effacement by Fischer-Dieskau's accompanist, Soviet Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, who has made the rustic, four-year-old festival his own showcase...
...Janis Richter Krohn of Huntington Valley, Pa. (Social Studies); Beth Edelman Luey of Pittsburgh, Pa. (History and Literature); Jania Mukerji of Tuckahoe, N.Y. (English); Ruth Bliss Phillips of Newton Highlands (History and Literature) and Esther R. Purpel of Cambridge (English...
...joined together as the Group Zero in 1958; their aim, according to Uecker, was to create "a white world" out of light, motion and other optical effects, and Zero presaged the founding of half a dozen other experimental groups in as many different countries. Another leader is Painter Gerhard Richter, enigmatic 1960 fugitive from East Germany's socialist realism, whose eerie and deliberately vague and cryptic oil renderings of commonplace snapshot subjects, magazine and catalogue illustrations have elicited viewers' shudders and critical raves throughout West Germany, Switzerland and Italy...
...city's very impersonality acts as a magnet for today's less flamboyant, more businesslike variety of artist. Gerhard Richter observes that "in Munich, the artist is too easily corrupted by the pleasant life. In Düsseldorf, the intellectual air is clean." For artists like Joseph Beuys, this is just the atmosphere for fresh beginnings. "What all of us have been doing," he says, "is trying to return to the zero points, to seek new essentials, to engage in meditations to lead us to the rediscovery of what lies behind our thwarted existence...
...They peeked in as he attended rehearsals, chatted with visitors in three languages, and finally paraded ecstatically through congratulatory mobs in Spoleto's town square on the night of his birthday. Musically, the program equaled anything that Bell was ever able to do in the studio, with Sviatoslav Richter as the pianist in the Shostakovich Quintet and Zubin Mehta conducting the Verdi Requiem and a stunning new production of Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande...