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...It’s ridiculous,” said Lauren D. Fortner, a Romance Languages and Literatures graduate student. “It’s not what’s going on—there are plenty of classes that talk about motherhood in a very interesting and laudatory...
...hours of speed, strength and agility drills with a personal trainer plus two to three hours of basketball against former men's college players and other local hotshots. "I don't worry for a second about her not being in shape," says U.S. women's coach Nell Fortner...
...same time. In Marcia Haydée (Carmen), Richard Cragun (the Toreador) and Egon Madsen (Don José), Cranko could field a trio whose ability to project feeling into narrative ballet can hardly be matched. What went wrong was the music. Scorning Bizet, Cranko got German Composer Wolfgang Fortner to produce a dreadful, cacophonous "Bizet collage" incapable of sustaining any nuance of emotion. Worse, the score picked up a bar or two of familiar melody, only to distort it unrecognizably or drown it in a dissonant morass...
...postwar generation of German composers consists principally of Hans Werner Henze and Karlheinz Stockhausen, two talented avantgardists. Among conductors, only Wolfgang Sawallisch stands out. But the articles' authors (Music Instructors Wilhelm Maler, Wolfgang Fortner and Wilhelm Twittenhoff) are most worried by the lack of instrumentalists. Not since World War II has a German contestant won first prize at a major international music competition, while Russia and the U.S., they point out, have virtually a corner on the market...
Gologne (June 10-19). The most ambitious of contemporary music festivals offers 16 world premieres by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Eimert, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Fortner, Karl Blomdahl and Karl-heinz Stockhausen, whose Contest Between Electronic Sound and Instruments is expected to be the festival's most impressive explosion of sound...