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...Bach's Magnificat. As it passed the mid-point of its month-long tour of Europe last week, the choir had collected a scrapbook full of glowing reviews. The fact that teenagers could sing music of such complexity, wrote the critic of The Hague's Vrije Volk, was "nothing short of staggering." Back home in Princeton, people are no longer staggered; their high school choir has been singing difficult music for them for an atonal decade. Among the group's achievements: Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Honegger's King David, the premiere of Roger Sessions...
More precisely, the problem has been that she has felt she deserves to win the competition, and has oriented her political and cultural life solely towards making the victory as complete as possible, and establishing an intellectual and moral justification for this victory. The state-structure and the bizarre Volk--idealogy of the Nazi regime were only extreme instances of this 75-year attempt...
...different in import from Wagner's more cosmic dramas, and the evening spent with the Boston Opera Group's production conveyed just that. The drama's specific setting (a curious one for Wagner) in bourgeois Nuremberg of the 16th century stresses the tie he envisioned between workmanship (or the Volk), and art's unmeasurable dreams...
...still manage to make their way into West Berlin despite the Wall, East German officials last week turned to a device used by the Nazis, who in turn borrowed it from the Reds: they offered rewards to child informers who turn in "traitors."* The East German newspaper. Das Volk, reported with pride that Heidi Mallowitz received a track suit for alerting police to a would-be refugee near the border, and Karin Mundt got the same prize for directing a suspicious stranger "not to the border but to the border guards." The girls were members of the Young Pioneers, Communist...
...strong descend on villages, plaster handbills on walls, harangue the people over loudspeakers, and turn every threat and promise on each individual farmer to join "the beautiful socialist society." Some farmers have committed suicide rather than submit. Many have slaughtered their livestock. The Erfurt Communist newspaper, Das Volk, recently reported 380 barn burnings in its district. And the most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after hearing that...