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Twas love and ambition, not politics, that prompted the current grand jete of defecting Soviet dancers. Natalia Makarova of the Kirov Ballet, according to rumor, managed to fall in love during the Kirov's London performance and may be offered a leading role in Rudolf Nureyev's new ballet...
Four years ago, Speer was released from Spandau, where only Rudolf Hess remains. Now 65, he lives in Heidelberg, a nearly forgotten figure who works as a management consultant and relaxes by walking in the country. When he writes that he will never be rid of his sin, he convinces, partly because he now has little to gain by such an admission. Speer is right when he says, "no apologies are possible...
...being called "the new Mozart" and regarded with awe by his classmates. One of them, a skinny twelve-year-old named Rudolf Serkin, stole some of Szell's compositions from a piano and practiced them furiously to play for Szell's birthday. Serkin still winces at Szell's uncompromising comment: "Serkin! How can you play such trash?" At 17, Richard Strauss hired young Szell as assistant conductor at the Berlin State Opera...
...Rudolf Bing, L.H.D., general manager
...fateful occasion, twin performances of their so-called rock opera Tommy, was the first time any kind of pop music had ever been heard at the Met. The historic program had been arranged by Rock Promoters Nathan Weiss and Bill Graham, who made the deal with Met General Manager Rudolf Bing. "Perhaps," said Bing, "some of these young people will come back when we do Mozart and Verdi...