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...whole of family wealth and power upon the eldest child. Siblings were absorbed into the firm, but only as drab underlings. After Fritz's death in 1902, the succession fell to his daughter, Bertha, and led to the long reign of a king-consort, Gustav von Bohlen und Hal-bach. Hand-picked by the Kaiser to marry the munitions business, he was also granted the right to use the Krupp name and to pass it along, though only for one generation and only to his eldest son. He ran the Konzern until 1943, outdoing the Krupps in ruthless efficiency...
...ceremonies, so reminiscent of the dark rites of the Hitler Jugend, marked the end of a busy season for the Society for Sport and Technology (Gesellschaft f$#252;r Sport und Technik). All summer long, G.S.T.'s 600,000 East German boys and girls between 14 and 18 had been learning drill and marksmanship, parachuting and radio operating...
WAGNER: Tristan und Isolde (Angel 3588). Still the best recorded Tristan ever, with Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler and Soprano Kirsten Flagstad...
There is no doubt that Wagner's Tristan und Isolde is an opera about sex. But how sexy it is depends on whether the audience relies more on its eyes or its ears. While the score throbs with passion, most of the dramatic action takes place in the souls of the title characters, with very little left for the stage...
SPOLETO (June 27-July 14). The eleventh season of the Festival of Two Worlds in the Umbrian hills opens with a new production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde staged by Gian Carlo Menotti, whose approach to the opera is "romantic," and who intends to stress its "erotic and youthful theme." Other highlights: noon chamber music, a triple bill of Avant-Garde Composer Luciano Berio's Laborintus II, Goffredo Petrassi's Estri and Henry Pousseur's Response...