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Other members of the committee are: Dean Francis Keppel '38 of the Graduate School of Education, Donald Oenalager '23, prominent stage designer who is also on the staff of the Yale School of Drama, Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of Art at Yale, Wolfgang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College, George Wald, professor of Biology, and John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Washington...
...committee are Lane Faison, Jr., Chairman of Williams College's Art Department; Dean Keppel of the School of Education; Donald Oenslager '23, prominent stage designer and member of the staff of the Yale School of Drams; Charles Sawyer, Dean of the Division of Arts of Yale University; Wolfgang Stechow, professor of Art at Oberlin College; George Wald, professor of Biology; and John Walker '30, Chief Curator of the National Gallery in Washington...
That evening in Berlin, Otto John sought out strange company for one who was head of the Bonn FBI. He drove to the apartment-office of Dr. Wolfgang Wohlgemuth, a busy, prosperous gynecologist who plays a hot trumpet, shares John's interest in woman-chasing, and is known to be a Communist. Sometime that evening, Wohlgemuth sat down at his desk and wrote a note: "The fact is that Dr. John will not return to the Western sector." Then they left together. Curiously enough, John left behind him in his hotel room a notebook that would have been useful...
...conductor slammed down his baton, grumbled "auf Wiedersehen," and walked out. Leading singers caught colds in the wet July weather. Technicians scrambled to lighten the murky stage so that the audience could see more of what was going on. After six weeks of preparing the season, Wieland and Wolfgang Wagner last week raised the curtain on the opening production, their grandfather's Tannhäuser. Despite all crises, the production turned out topnotch...
Bayreuth had not dared do Tannhäuser since Toscanini's unforgettable version 24 years ago. But brothers Wieland and Wolfgang, who will dare anything, decided the old Venusberg needed some drastic new landscaping. They hired fast-rising, Kiev-born Conductor Igor Markevitch, who had never done Wagnerian opera before, then replaced him with Germany's Joseph Keilberth. "I was not aware that anybody here was interested in tempo," huffed Markevitch at one point. "All they talk about is lighting"-and no wonder, for Director Wieland Wagner's new staging relies mainly on light effects. When...