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Zimmermann 's Die Soldaten writes fine to a stark tradition...
...comes along that sums up everything-right or wrong-about a given period so completely that nothing can come after it: an unequivocal double bar, a decisive fine. Such a piece is the late German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's sprawling, eclectic but ultimately unsuccessful serialist opera Die Soldaten (The Soldiers). First performed in Cologne in 1965, the work was given its American premiere last week by Sarah Caldwell's Opera Company of Boston. With it, an experimental tradition begun by Schoenberg, continued by Alban Berg and refined by avant-gardists of Germany's Darmstadt school...
Healthy Sign? What can the union do for the Soldaten? "We demand better pay," snaps Union Leader Willi Zimmermann, 48. He explains that a German sergeant with five years' service draws only $150 a month (v. $270 for his U.S. counterpart), and is seeking $40 a month more. Zimmermann also demands "easier" promotion, more recreational facilities, increased health coverage, and a pension plan equivalent to that of civil servants. Fair enough within the framework of current union de mands, but Zimmermann goes further. "It is ridiculous," he says, "for a highly trained soldier to perform menial tasks like guard...
...moment we were off, straight down the road as if we had nothing about which to worry. Off the road a little way we observed a grave, placarded with a small square wooden sign on which was a cross and the words, "Hier Ruhen Soldaten USA" (Here lie soldiers of the U.S.A.). A few yards farther on we saw a big cross with a German helmet stuck on it like a scarecrow...
...messenger work together. After he was wounded and made a Gefreiter he didn't take his leave but came right back to the regiment as soon as he could move about. That was a brave thing to do. Before that we were both privates together-'Gemeine Soldaten Freiwillige!' "In America I went first to Altoona. But things weren't so good. Then I go to Reading, and it wasn't much better. May- be I wasn't the-what you call it?- type for this country. Now I go back home. Maybe...