Word: wolfgang
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, Wolfgang Leonhard, the ex-Communist who now analyzes Red affairs for West Germany's Die Zeit, thought it was "very possible that Khrushchev will give up one of his posts, more likely the government job." The free-for-all was clearly getting out of hand; somewhat unprofessionally the Guardian's Polish-born Soviet expert, Victor Zorza, shrugged, "it's all guesswork," then plunged back into the fray...
Nostalgic Pie. News of the Nijmegen recital drew a flurry of editorials in West German papers, and the program handed out in the town's Concertgebouw contained letters from German Baritone Die trich Fischer-Dieskau and Berlin Phil harmonic Manager Wolfgang Stresemann: all said that no civilized German could fail to understand Rubinstein's feelings...
...incident recalled a whole chain of mysterious misfortunes that have befallen Germans linked to Egypt. Last summer the private plane of an Egyptian supplying arms and technicians blew up over northern Germany, killing his wife; in November two airmail parcels addressed to German Rocket Engineer Wolfgang Pilz blew up when opened in his office in Egypt, killing five Egyptians and disfiguring Pilz's German secretary. Then, on a road near the West German town of Lörrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed...
Polyphonal & Popular. Last time out, it was Munich's turn. Wolfgang and his troupe moved their instruments into the splendors of the Herkulessaal, disappeared behind the screen of organ pipes, and played through Bach's Art of the Fugue, the final composition of his life and a showcase of his innermost contemplations on polyphonal theory. Only at the end of their two-hr.-long performance did Wolfgang and his assistants appear to take crisply correct bows, and then they were off on the high road again...
Such evenings leave audiences aglow with delight and thundering applause, and Wolfgang basking in a sense of his mission. "We have found a new way of presenting organ music," he said, steering his van down the empty Autobahn. "My shop has become just a hobby; music is now my profession...