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Last week Die Tote Stadt was finally revived by the New York City Opera, with Jeritza, now a remarkably robust and handsome 87, sitting in the fourth row center. Even in the 1920s, Die Tote Stadt was an anachronism. Korngold was to Richard Strauss what Engelbert Humperdinck (Hansel und Gretel) was to Wagner-a brilliant but minor follower. The style of Die Tote Stadt is a lush, clamorous, occasionally schmaltzy orchestral sonorama that lies somewhere between Der Rosenkavalier and Elektra, with special added effects from Puccini, Debussy, Mahler and Rimsky-Korsakov. The best of its vocal moments, like the taunting...
Works of Couperin, Strauss, Debussy, and Faure; Marcel Bardon, cellist, and John Cobb, pianist; Holmes Living Room...
...well each does in the primary race. Unless a candidate wins big in most of the primaries, it will be tough for him to get enough delegates to win on the first ballot of the national convention. Says a top aide to Democratic National Committee Chairman Robert Strauss: "I can see the convention going to the seventh or eighth ballot, with Scoop Jackson and George Wallace holding the largest blocs of delegates, but neither able to make it over the top, and neither willing to give in. Then I can see the convention turning to Kennedy...
Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity...
...grass-roots political life, too, Jews play a vital role. A history of persecution has convinced them that safety lies in an open democratic society, and they are among the most politically active. Says Robert Strauss, national chairman of the Democratic Party: "Because of its background, the Jewish community feels that it must take a keener interest in democracy than anyone else. Jews feel they have a bigger stake in democracy than anyone else." So Jews tend to vote more conscientiously than other people. In his recently published Jews and American Politics, Stephen Isaacs estimates that Jews, who make...