Word: bamberger
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...near midnight in the sleeping Bavarian city of Bamberg (pop. 76,800) when some oddball, armed with a bucket of white oil paint and bursting with perverse zeal, got to working on a great carved door of Bamberg's 700-year-old cathedral. In the morning, there for all Bambergers to see, stood a legend in German, sloshed in letters a foot and a half high: "Elvis Presley-My God." Dreamboat Groaner Presley was on U.S. Army duty some 100 miles from the scene of his deification...
...furthering European integration. That purpose was soon neglected, but the festival shows signs of thriving anyway, partially because of Passau's picturesque location at the confluence of the Inn, the Hz and the Danube. This yearns highlights: a performance of Bruckner's Ninth Symphony by the Bamberg Symphony under Joseph Keilberth; Bruckner's C Major Organ Prelude, played on the cathedral organ; two evenings of ballet danced by the Ljubljana Slovene National Opera and Ballet on the banks of the Danube...
...Bamberg seven G.I.s were arrested, charged with the rape of a 15-year-old German schoolgirl. The city council called for the removal of all U.S. troops from the city...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Norman Foster, bass-baritone; Bamberg Symphony conducted by Jascha Horenstein; Vox). These beautiful "songs for dead children," written more than 50 years ago, limn the gloomy sentiments of the discouraged Mahler and the aging splendor of turn-of-the-century Vienna. Boston's Norman Foster does them with a fine, lyrical sense...
Enthusiastic members of Bamberg's Prehistoric -Society, led by Dr. Bruno Miiller, did the actual digging. Six feet below the modern floor of the cave, they found a jumbled mass of human bones. Sorted-out and carefully studied, the bones proved to be the remains of not three but 40 young women, none of them more than 20 years old. They may or may not have been virgins, says Dr. Kunkel. but "the skulls and bones are of such fine structure and regular proportions that they must have belonged to girls who, even today, would be considered beautiful...