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HINDEMITH: SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES ON THEMES BY CARL MARIA VON WEBER (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Deutsche Grammophon). Choreographer George Balanchine composed his Metamorphoses to this music: beetlelike creatures eventually turn into birds. Furtwängler, an early champion of Hindemith, calls upon his own powerful magic to translate the themes into various musical modes, from unsettling nervous buzzings to biting jazz. On the other side, Furtwängler conjures up a more peaceful succession of Metamorphoses, also written in the 1940s, by the 81-year-old Richard Strauss...
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...Baron von Novotny. The economy may be chronically short of workers, but it supports a Parkinsonian proliferation of officials. There are 29 "technical" specialists for every 100 production workers in industry as a whole; in some heavy-engineering plants, two out of three employees are "experts." Czech clerks dully obey detailed instructions that minutely specify every routine from stowing their rubber stamps to writing form letters with "psychologically effective opening and closing phrases...
...Siroky and colleagues who were responsible for the show trials of 1952, Czechs have no illusions about the nature of the regime. Says one Prague cynic: "Why don't they just come right out and admit what they are? We wouldn't mind if he became Baron von Novotny and had his estates...
Resounding Belle. She took the abuse with gallantry and grace. In fact, as she said, "I abhor Hitler and Hitlerism." On one occasion when Hitler's Ambassador, Joachim von Ribbentrop, greeted her with the Nazi salute, she snapped: "Stop that nonsense with me!" During World War II, she ran Cliveden as a 1,600-bed hospital for wounded Canadian soldiers, also assisted her husband in his duties as Lord Mayor of Plymouth, which was savagely bombed. "You can kill us," she challenged the Nazis, "but you can't scare...