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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in the same issue as your delightfully acerbic Essay on "neologisms, coinages and other abuses" of the English language, men like Ibsen and Nietzsche were "astrodomed," Frank Wedekind "psychographed" his subject. Von Karajan makes Mahler "more immense" (less immense? a bit more immense?). Midnight Express is "hyped-up" (hyped-down? hyped-over...
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic make Mahler even more immense than usual...
Richard Strauss: Salome (Soprano Hildegard Behrens, Mezzo Agnes Baltsa, Tenor Karl-Walter Bohm, Baritone Jose Van Dam, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan conductor, Angel; 2 LPs). With Karajan, the orchestral music comes first, even in opera. Here he conducts a vibrant, sensuous performance of Strauss's lurid opera. Behrens as Salome may lack the cruel edge of Birgit Nilsson's performance on London. But Behrens' pure voice contrasts chillingly with Salome's lust, while Van Dam's ringing Jochanaan is a saintly counterpoint in a savage world...
Raise a toast to Von Doering, Chem 20's professor...
When this couple, so prodigious in their ambition, self-deception and passion, first fell in love, she was the wife of Hans von Billow, a great Wagner admirer who often conducted his work. For a few years Bulow tolerated the affair, even though it brought two Wagner babies into his household. One reason for the unusual arrangement was that all three wanted to keep the scandal from the young King Ludwig II of Bavaria, who was their adoring, idealistic patron. Finally in 1868, pregnant once again, Cosima left for Switzerland to live with Wagner, and here the diary begins...