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...grown from nothing to a solid symbol of academic liberty and the second biggest (after Munich) university in West Germany. It is the Western opposite of the fallen University of Berlin, which the Russians plucked when the Allies sliced Berlin four ways. The old university-founded in 1810 by Wilhelm von Humboldt and once among Europe's greatest-had a history rich with the influence of Hegel, Fichte, Kant, Goethe and Leibnitz. The Nazis killed all that; the Russians buried it. The East Berlin plant survives as Humboldt University, a dreary institution with about 10,000 students. Humboldt nearly...
...Clay for a new school, got money and help from the U.S. and West Berlin's late Mayor Ernst Reuter. Organized on the same day that the Berlin blockade began, Free University started out with candlelit classes in a few shoddy houses and the remains of ths-Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, its campus the city's streets and its study halls any handy park bench...
...When the Philharmonic made its first visit to the U.S. in 1955, Von Karajan had taken over only four months earlier at the death of the great Wilhelm Furtwangler. In its two U.S. tours-1955 and 1956-the Philharmonic was a consistent disappointment. Sturdy, polished and restrained, the orchestra seemed to suffer both from muddy sound and lethargic spirit. On its third tour, it has seemed like a new orchestra. The sound is still heavier than that of U.S. orchestras but the heaviness no longer gets in the way of the music making. The Philharmonic contributed some performances nobody could...
...Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1770-1831), German philosopher: "Only one man ever understood me." Then he paused and said: "And he didn't understand...
Rubinstein, whom his friend Thomas Mann called "that civilized man," is a product of the same Europe that Mann knew, a Europe that also nurtured such pianists as Benno Moiseiwitsch and Wilhelm Backhaus. Indeed, Rubinstein could have stepped out of a Mann novel. His enthusiasm for food, wines, cigars, paintings and fine editions is legendary, and his cultural interests extend far beyond his music. He reads omnivorously in eight languages, hobnobs more with writers than he does with musicians, occasionally regrets that he did not follow a youthful urge to become a novelist. His piano playing seems the consequence...