Word: george
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...Georg Solti [MILESTONES, Sept. 15] was a giant of the music world, one of the greatest conducting talents of all time and a man who devoted his life to studying and developing a deep understanding of the masterpieces and their creators. He presented these works to us, the public, in his own inimitable fashion so we could experience some of the emotions and the supernatural insight of genius. But who remains willing to sit, without the help of a single visual effect, and actually listen for more than five minutes to music that could transport him to uncharted intellectual...
DIED. SIR GEORG SOLTI, 84, fierce maestro who prodded the Chicago Symphony Orchestra to the front of the world stage; in Antibes, France. During his conducting debut at the Budapest Opera, Solti's audience fled--not from his Mozart, but out of fear that Hitler, then in Vienna, was fast approaching. Never again. On the Chicago podium, he transfixed listeners, seemingly verging on levitation in his energetic efforts to draw tight phrasing and brilliant coloration from his musicians. His athleticism won the orchestra 23 Grammy Awards during his 22-year reign...
This also means that Cantor will be able to attract the brightest researchers to assist him, says Georg F. Weber, an immunologist working with Cantor...
...country must be prepared for constant change or else become a non-player in the world business game," said Georg Gamota, President of the Science and Technology Management Associates...
...neither will Marcus Stern's production of Woyzeck at the American Repertory Theater. Based on a series of fragments by the German playwright, Georg Buchner, the work was hailed as the first truly modern play when it first appeared on stage, some eighty years after it had been written in 1836. The last work Buchner worked on before he died of influenza at twenty-three, the collection of vignettes was performed to great success in 1913 in Germany. The stark Woyzeck diagnosed and condemned the nation's sick soul at a time characterized by psychoanalysis and introspection...