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...Haydn was more than a musical wag. Sharing the spirit of the Sturm und Drang poets of the time (among them Schiller and Lessing), he made his instruments weep and rant as well. The supple, rhapsodic lyricism of the slow movement of Symphony No. 44 is far removed from the aloof, balanced expressiveness sought by most composers of his time; the demonic orchestral outbursts and sudden silences in the first movement of No. 80 point ahead to the struggle-locked manner of the later Beethoven. To initiate the finale of the Sinfonia Concertante, four solo instruments conduct a nonverbal argument...
Died. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 59, scion of Germany's Krupp empire (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...entrance hall of Villa Hiigel, the 200-room stone and steel mansion where Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was born, 500 business, political and labor leaders gathered late last week for the funeral of the last sole ruler of the Ruhr's most powerful industrial dynasty. After the eulogies, a Krupp band struck up a miners' song called Glueck Auf (Good Fortune) and led the way out through a crowd to a hearse waiting in the rain. Behind followed ten Krupp miners bearing the oaken casket. Visibly in tears was Krupp's longtime confidant...
...McLendon and his American Mothers' Committee; only a connoisseur of "serious" music may sample Bomarzo, the hero of which is "sexually ambivalent and frustrated, ghost-ridden, and obsessed with death." One shudders to consider the effects of Mr. McLendon's taste on works such as Tristan und Isolde (premarital sex), Salome (fetishism and degeneracy) and Wozzeck (sadism and murder). "English records that deal with sex, sin and drugs" are what make the best popular music true, if controversial art, precisely because they deal with an imagery that is valid for youth today...
...years, German-American relations resembled nothing so much as a late 18th century romantic novel, with a fluttery maiden (the Federal Republic), a sometimes cold lover (the U.S.), with dialogue full of Sturm und Drang. Everytime a Senator would complain about the high cost of keeping six U.S. divisions in West Germany, shudders would run up Bonn spines. Every time the cold war would thaw a bit, Bonn would demand reassurance-once again -that permanent division of Germany would not be the price of a Soviet-U.S. rapprochement...