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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans (Birgit Finnilä, contralto; Ingeborg Springer, mezzo-soprano; Elly Ameling, soprano; Annelies Burmeister, contralto;. Berlin Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri, conductor. 3 LPs; Philips; $23.94). Vivaldi composed his 1716 oratorio for his students at the Ospedale della Pietá. the Venetian orphanage where he taught music. The subject was a bloody one for schoolgirls: after beguiling the barbarian commander with words and wine, Judith seizes his sword and chops off his head. The score is sumptuous, propelled by the Baroque master's typical unflagging vitality. In this recording both male and female solo roles are sung...
Their first marriage survived ten years, produced more bad scenes than a B movie, and finally finished in divorce 14 months ago. Now Elizabeth Taylor, 43, and Richard Burton, 49, appear strong enough for a second try. "This is not a trial reconciliation, it is permanent," proclaimed Pressagent John Springer of his clients, who met in Switzerland last week following Taylor's six-month tour in Russia for the filming of The Bluebird. With Taylor apparently having parked her current beau, Used Car Dealer Harry Wynberg, she and Burton have planned a trip to Israel to test their reborn...
That kind of toughness has won him both friends and enemies. Axel Springer's Die Welt calls him "a right leftist without trimmings." And Schmidt an swers: "I don't mind when people call me hard or decisive. I think I am a normal man." Privately, he enjoys his reputation as a hard-nose and sometimes puts on public displays of toughness to nurture the image. He recently lashed out at some youthful left-wing critics in his party with such vehemence that even seasoned politicos winced...
...them. It was hard for them to believe that he would give up his high office simply because of the spy scandal, even though Guillaume had had access to secret NATO documents and other sensitive matters. There were rumors, given wide circulation by the anti-Brandt newspapers of Axel Springer, that Guillaume had gathered data about indiscretions in Brandt's private life and had attempted to blackmail the Chancellor. One such unsubstantiated story: Brandt in the early 1950s had an affair with an East German woman who was paid $125,000 by a West German intelligence agent when...
Against the best field of the whole series at the Dick Springer Memorial Giant slalom at Mammoth Mountain, on April 7, Steele finished 13th, and stood 12th after his first run. Skiing hotter than a dollar pistol, Eric Poulsen of the U.S. ski team won that event by over two seconds...