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Last week, as nearly 9,000 Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents...
Faded Waltzes. The plot takes Macheath through a fake marriage with pretty Polly Peachum, two betrayals by one of his earlier loves, and right up to the moment of his execution-when he is saved by a royal pardon. Beaten into the mixture of bawdry and cynicism are a couple...
An Awful Bore. As the first German Hanover to occupy a throne in more than 80 years. Frederika more than justified her regal forebears. But a Queen, particularly a mere Queen consort, with such outstanding gifts and firm opinions was bound to have an unsettling effect on the delicate balance...
Krenek: Piano Sonata No. 4 (Bernhard Abramowitsch; Music Library). A vintage 1948 work by a composer who made a worldwide splash with his opera, Jonny Spielt Auf, written in a kind of Teutonic honky-tonk style a quarter century ago. The sonata, sometimes using the twelve-tone technique, is full...
Home again in Germany, the vacationists got down to work with the special "Teutonic fury" that is the pride of Germandom and the despair of all its neighbors. August's steel production equaled Britain's (or a rate of 17 million tons a year). Unemployment fell below the...