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...Europe has been sweltering this summer as temperatures have soared into the 90s. But the hottest spot on the Continent last week had to be the small West German city of Bayreuth, site of the annual Richard Wagner opera festival. Inside a broiling, stifling Festspielhaus, an elegant first-night crowd shed its tuxedo jackets along with its customary solemn decorum as it watched, with growing disappointment, impatience and finally anger, a new production of Wagner's 16-hour, four-evening German myth, Der Ring des Nibelungen, by two British knights, Director Sir Peter Hall and Conductor Sir Georg Solti...
Germany's music attractions are among the most prestigious in Europe. Apart from the Munich and the Bayreuth Wagner festivals, which have long since been sold put, there are Jugendfestspiele at Bayreuth in August, Ansbach's legendary Bach week also early in August, and open-air opera at Augsburg and Heidelberg, followed in September by the Berlin Festival centering on Herbert von Karajan. West Berlin has become as racy as it was in the '30s, drawing Americans by the hundreds with dozens of cafés offering every variety of decadence...
Nietzsche could hardly wait to turn 15; a new edition of Kleist was his birthday present. Rilke scribbled verses by the grave of the "dark, impatient Kleist." Wagner and Brahms agreed on few matters; Kleist's brilliance was one of them...
...conductor they respect, they will go through hell for him." The Chicago spirit is evident both in music of the classical period, like Mozart's, and in the great romantic works: Mahler and Bruckner symphonies and Strauss tone poems. Last week's dazzling performance under Solti of Wagner's complete opera Das Rheingold matched an orchestra at the top of its form with a conductor at the height of his interpretive prowess...
...Goldman are the Heroes, people who transcend the crap, who can still impress and awe him the way Tarzan Finds a Son did when he was the only kid Highland Park, Illinois crazy enough to see the same movie twice. For various reasons, among his heroes are Oliver, Robert Wagner, Bob Woodward, Richard Attenborough, but most of all, Paul Newman...