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...night for a concert of sacred music in Memorial Church. The quality of the combination was something less than the sum of the quality of the Choir and the BSO, because the two compositions the orchestra played alone hardly matched the two works sung by the choir, Brahms' Fest- und Gedenksprueche, Op. 109 and Mozart's Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento...
...Duke Max lived to see the opera house rebuilt, and by the time his grandson, mad King Ludwig, was on the Bavarian throne, productions there had reached such a pitch of grandeur that the world premiere of Tristan und Isolde was largely responsible for Prussia's defeat of the Royal Bavarian Army in 1866; after the opera, there was no money left for the guns. The defeated Ludwig, bewitched by Wagner, staged three more premieres before he succumbed to a paranoid fear of crowds that kept him away from opening nights. "Each time I enter my box," he said...
...Mercedes 600 (U.S. price: $23,000), adding that the 300 SE (around $10,000) was snappy enough. And just the other day he was seen waiting patiently in line at a Bonn pastry shop to buy two pieces of cake to take home for the afternoon Kaffee und Kuchen with his wife, Luise. But a Chancellor cannot lead the simple life forever, and der Dicke has made his first concession. He has reluctantly agreed to have an official residence built in the park of the Palais Schaumburg for $250,000, complete with swimming pool...
...last count, there were 72 princes and princesses of Liechtenstein, which is eleven more highnesses than there are square miles in the minuscule principality. Luckily for the postal system, only a dozen Von und zu Liechtensteins actually live in Liechtenstein. Indeed, it was not until 1937 that a hereditary ruler actually made his home in the drafty, 13th century family fortress, whose battlements rise starkly above the capital of Vaduz (pronounced Vah-dootz). There last week, amid eulogies and thunderous renditions of Heil Liechtenstein, Franz Josef II Maria Aloys Alfred Karl Johannes Heinrich Michael Georg Ignatius Benediktus Gerhardus Majella...
Denver and UND Full of Canadians...