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...important characteristic of this fermentation," said the Zurich paper, "is that it does not take place among the voiceless masses, but among the party elite-the intellectuals, the progressive workers, the workers of the new caste of technical managers. Communists as well as non-Communists are sick of dragging on their bleak existence...
When Arnold Schoenberg was working on Moses and Aaron in the '30s, he predicted that it would take 50 years for his only major opera to be produced. Last week, six years after his death in Los Angeles, the work held the stage at the Zurich June Festival long ahead of the composer's forecast...
...opera's climactic moment, Moses causes the golden calf to collapse onstage ("Be gone, you image of powerlessness"). In the third act (not performed in Zurich because Schoenberg never completed the music for it) he denounces Aaron for having used God as a means to human ends. Aaron dies and Moses gives his uncompromising message to his people: "In the desert you shall achieve the goal: unity with...
Died. Hélène Marianne Bresslau Schweitzer, 79, wife (since 1912) of Dr. Albert Schweitzer, famed Alsatian-born medical missionary and Nobel Peace Prizewinner; in Zurich, Switzerland...
...first, written in 1901 when Joyce was 19, is a reverent birthday greeting to Henrik Ibsen and glows with optimism about the dawning age of "enlightenment." The last, written in 1940, three weeks before Joyce's death, is a note of thanks to the mayor of Zurich for giving Joyce and his family asylum from the Nazi war machine. It reflects the "painful times" on which the age of enlightenment has fallen...