Word: stadt
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Erich Wolfgang Korngold. The son of the city's leading music critic, young Korngold had written a large body of music before he turned 15, including a piano sonata for Artur Schnabel, and achieved international success in 1920 at the age of 23 with his romantic opera Die Tote Stadt (The Dead City). It seemed possible that he would go on to become one of the century's greatest musical figures...
...last Winter Games too provided a perfect illustration of the struggle: Katarina Witt, the self-styled "worker's hero" from Karl-Marx-Stadt in East Germany, vs. Debi Thomas, the all-American Stanford premed student. In the left corner, a communist figure skater who lived like a princess and had been trained since infancy to go for gold; in the right, a determined young black woman who had overcome hardship to chase her dream. In the middle, the opera both chose as accompaniment was Bizet's tale of the working-class heroine, Carmen. Who could not see their rivalry...
...this night she is one of only half a dozen men and women in the disco on the 37th floor of the Hotel Stadt Berlin in Alexanderplatz -- the modernistic public square where most of the demonstrations in East Berlin for this new, democratic way of life have taken place. "People are exhausted," says the bartender. "It is too much to comprehend...