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...Meistersinger, Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Prelude to Parsifal, Preludes to Act I and Act III of Lohengrin (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor; Philips; $7.98). If records like this did not come along occasionally, one would tend to take these familiar excerpts for granted-as Herbert von Karajan obviously does in a bleary competing version on Angel. The freshness and vigor of Haitink's interpretations stem, surprisingly enough, from his scrupulously orthodox approach. He is less interested in conveying his own message than in getting his men-all of whom seem to be virtuosos-to play...
...cruise ship seized in American Samoa by Uncle Duke), Trudeau flew to the South Pacific. There he contracted a malady some tourists call the Banshee Two-Step and spent several days in the hospital on his rterun. An account of the misadventure, written with Washington Post Columnist Nicholas von Hoffman, appeared in Rolling Stone and will be published on April Fool's Day in expanded form as Tales from the Margaret Mead Taproom (Sheed & Ward...
From Deutsche Grammophon conies Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. I in B-flat minor, recorded last November with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, which is both surprising and gratifying for its underplaying of the work's slam-bang heroics...
...style, Ford has become a straight man for columnists, gagwriters and partygoers. Ford has "become the country's leading target for jokes," Show Biz Chronicler Earl Wilson wrote last week. "Gone was all reverence for the No. 1 position in the land." The Washington Post's Nicholas von Hoffman called Ford "President Klutz," "Mr. Ten Thumbs," "the Great Flub-Dub" and "Old Bungle-Foot," all in a single column, and wondered whether he would become "the first President to be laughed out of office...
Post Executive Editor Benjamin C. Bradlee violently disagrees with Von Hoffman. "We're not talking about cruel management or an exploited working class," he retorts. "We're talking about a bunch of criminals who slash tires and smash presses and hit women over the head with two-by-fours. I have no lint left in my navel for that." Graham makes the same point more moderately: "We are not union busting. That means an unwillingness to bargain, which just isn't the case here. They [the pressmen] wouldn't negotiate. They busted themselves...