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Wolter pulled out a map of Rotterdam. "The Dutch map the devil out of that country. Look here. That's all reclaimed land. It's low country, so they have just had to create a country. See here, every drainage ditch is indicated, every wharf. The tulip areas are down here. Here are the dunes. With the changing and the reclaiming, the mapping has to be precise. They have an artistic flair...
...year-old Mecir has beaten Timmy Connote and Sweden's Mats Wilander this Year and won $15,000 tournaments at Hamburg and Rotterdam, successes that have helped lift him to No. 10 in the world...
Liszt: A Faust Symphony; Two Episodes from Lenau's "Faust." (James Conlon conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, with John Aler, tenor, and the men's chorus of the Slovak Philharmonic; Erato.) In the Faust legend, the romantics found all the excesses they craved: sex, violence, power, the diabolical, damnation and salvation. And in Franz Liszt, who had more than a whiff of the necromancer about him, the Faust story found an ideal musical interpreter. In works such as Malediction and Totentanz for piano and orchestra, the four Mephisto Waltzes for solo piano and, most ambitious of all, the Faust Symphony...
Glass's next operatic opportunity came in 1978, with a $25,000 commission from the city of Rotterdam for Satyagraha. Glass decided the work would be sung in Sanskrit, a mellifluous, vowel-rich language, to a text drawn from the Bhagavad-Gita. As his subject he chose Mohandas Gandhi's early years in South Africa, during which Gandhi developed his philosophy of nonviolent resistance. If the elemental Einstein was Glass's breakthrough, the gentle, serene Satyagraha was the first major work of his mature style. By poignantly transforming a flute line from the second scene into Gandhi's eloquent apostrophe...
...forestall a disaster, the divers began carving a 10 ft. by 17 ft. hole in the hull. A giant floating crane operated by Smit Tak International, a Rotterdam company that often retrieves sunken ships from places like the war-torn Persian Gulf, will be towed out to sea on a platform to pluck out the barrels gingerly, an operation that will probably take about a month. Declares Smit Tak International's managing director, Klaas Reinigert: "Compared with all the other jobs we've done, this one's easy." Despite the intense publicity that the sinking...