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Lowell House Music Society presents a free concert of Beethoven, Wagner, and Chopin. David Commanday Conducts. Pianists are Tanya Bartevyan and Andrew Bonner...
Died. Bruce Hungerford, 54, Australian-born concert pianist and Egyptologist; in an auto accident; just after giving a slide lecture on Egypt at Rockefeller University in New York City. When he was pianist in residence at the Bayreuth Festival master classes, Hungerford recorded all the piano music of Richard Wagner. More recently he was acclaimed for his powerful, deeply sensitive interpretations of Beethoven, both in concert and on records...
...great literature that brings some people together also builds barriers. Literary classics may nourish chauvinism and create ideologies. Wars tend to reenforce national stereotypes and to harden ideologies. When the U.S. entered World War I, its schools ceased teaching German. Beethoven and Wagner were taboo. Still, at that very moment, American military research teams were studying German technology. Today, while Indira Gandhi restricts American newsmen and American publications, she desperately tries to make the Indian technology more like the American. Technology dilutes and dissolves ideology...
...began to take on a Communist tint in 1944, he and other union leaders created the rival Liberal Party. The actual vote on the Liberal line was never large, but it was big enough to sway many elections. Republicans such as John Lindsay and Democrats Averell Harriman, Robert Wagner, John Kennedy, Daniel Moynihan and Jimmy Carter were all grateful recipients of Liberal endorsement. Rose liked to claim that his party existed only to advance good government, but he once acknowledged: "Frequently, when you do what is right, it turns out to be also very clever...
...WAGNER: DIE MEISTERSINGER (London. 5 LPs). Sir Georg Solti and an eloquent cast-notably Britain's Norman Bailey as a wise and warm Sachs-present the finest recorded performance yet of this operatic masterpiece...