Word: stalag
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...This week at New York City's Metropolitan Opera, Klemperer is definitely out of Luftwaffe uniform and appears in turban and robe as Turkish Pasha Selim, a nonsinging role in Mozart's The Abduction from the Seraglio. The role is not a one-shot stop from the stalag for Klemperer. The son of famed Conductor Otto Klemperer, he has also narrated Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder with the Boston Symphony Orchestra; next spring he will do the narration of Beethoven's Egmont with the New York Philharmonic. Klemperer remains fond of Klink. Those residuals still trickle...
...then gave Kentucky its only Southeastern Conference title-and an N.C.A.A. probation for recruiting violations. In 1954 he moved on to Texas A&M, and it was there that the teeth in the Bear showed most clearly. His first training camp, held at Junction, Texas, was closer to Stalag 17 than a gathering of young athletes. Two busloads, 115 players on football scholarships, went to Junction. When it was over, 27 men remained on the roster. The surviving Aggies won a single game that year, the only losing season in Bryant's 34-year career as a head coach...
Papillon, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, 9:15 p.m., Sunday, Dec. 14, 7 p.m.; and Stalag 17, Friday and Saturday, Dec. 12 and 13, 7 and 12 p.m., Sunday...
JUST AFTER the fall of France in 1940, the Germans seized composer Olivier Messaien and took him to a concentration camp in desolate Silesia. Confined in Stalag VIII, undernourished and brutalized, he created perhaps his greatest piece the Quartet for the End of Time. He wrote it for the few available musicians and with them performed it there in the barracks...
...lack of food in the Stalag had caused Messaien to have a hallucination of "the rainbow of the Angel amid strange shifting colors"--the destroying angel from the Book of Revelations who announces the "end of time" at the apocalypse. This vision, embodying the extreme terror of the end of the world and the perfect peace that must follow is the essence of this remarkable piece. With his highly individual blend of Hindu rhythms, natural sounds like bird songs, and suggestive harmonic textures. Messaien has created music of the greatest emotional power that is at the same time an expression...