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...Witness Wilhelm Gellinick said he heard Ilse tell her husband: "My little pigeon, I think it is time for that old man [in a working party] to grovel a bit." The old man, said Gellinick, was made to roll up & down a hill several times, later died as a result. Gellinick testified that he worked in Buchenwald's pathology laboratory, saw human skin brought in and worked into lampshades for presentation to Ilse's husband...
When Rodin died in 1917, he had made spontaneity the rule instead of the exception in sculpture. A few of his followers, among them Aristide Maillol, Wilhelm Lehmbruck and Jacques Lipchitz, combined it as he had with a thorough knowledge of the body and the classical tradition. The greater number used it as a substitute for knowledge. Many of those in last week's show were like men who, having never learned to sing, just shout. There were others who seemed not to belong in the exhibition at all. The doughnut-soft abstractions of Jean Arp, the polished simplifications...
...Bach came to write his two concertos for three pianos-a complicated, not to say cumbersome, kind of composition on the face of it. Bach Biographer Albert Schweitzer cites a tradition that Bach wrote them (actually for the light-toned clavier) to play with his two eldest sons, Wilhelm Friedemann and Carl Philipp Emanuel. Others believe he wrote them for his students while he was conductor of the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig...
...real-life claims of another pretender to the same identity were still in dispute last week. When he first arrived in Paris on May 26, 1833, he was a balding watchmaker with a thick mustache and a fringe of chin whiskers. His passport identified him as Karl Wilhelm Naundorff of Weimar, but the passport, its bearer promptly explained in almost incomprehensible French, was merely a blind; Karl Naundorff was in reality Louis, son of the guillotined Louis XVI, and the rightful King of France...
What the audience saw last week was a far cry from either Salome or Elektra. As one watching expert, Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, described it, Capriccio is "a musician's opera, composed for the musical gourmet. It has the quality of an old, old sweet wine and contains everything that Strauss knew about music and opera...