Word: wunderlich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Otto Klemperer's version, with the Philharmonia and New Philharmonia orchestras (Angel; 2 LPs), has superb soloists, Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig and Tenor Fritz Wunderlich, whose promise was cut short by his accidental death last summer at 35. The orchestra sounds wonderfully clear and portentous, as though this were the last music to be played on the day of doom. Although Klemperer's playing time is actually shorter than Bernstein's, Angel chose to record the piece on three LP sides, filling the fourth with five Mahler songs...
...grow back; in most other places, it returns as tough as ever. On the Nile, where Egypt spends $1,500,000 annually on hyacinth eradication with dredges and herbicides, the plants cluster to form islands strong enough to support animals. "You can never let up," says William E. Wunderlich, aquatic growth control chief of the New Orleans District of the Army's Corps of Engineers. "I've seen a 300-h.p. tug stopped tight by water hyacinth. I've seen grown men walking...