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...Cathedral of Our Lady in Munich. "In former years," he confesses, "Americans were the main customers for those porcelain monsters-the huge vases and ornate groups and centerpieces, laced figurines and gilded plates. Now we sell those to the Near East. Americans know too well what Rosenthal, Meissen and Nymphenburg should look like. We still sell a good deal of kitsch, but Americans buy it now because it is amusing...
...Cikker. For chamber music buffs there will be Liederabende by Baritones Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Hermann Prey. Another series of chamber music by Bach, Gabrieli, Gesualdo, Telemann, Haydn, Mozart and Scarlatti will be presented by small instrumental and vocal ensembles in the elegant 18th century Nymphenburg Palace (through July...
MUNICH (June 22 to Aug. 10) is one continuous Fest, starting with Karl Richter's Bach Festival (June 22-30) through chamber music at Nymphenburg Palace (July 6-25) to the Bayerische Staatsoper's ambitious selection of operas ranging from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice to Berg's Lulu, via a sprinkling of operas by Munich's own Richard Strauss (July...
...NYMPHENBURG (July 7-29), on the outskirts of Munich, presents some of the finest chamber music available on the summer circuit, highlighted this season by the appearance of the Juilliard String Quartet. Performances are held by candlelight in the magnificent threestory stone hall of the sprawling Wit telsbach Palace...
Before taking off for a weekend at Salem Castle on Lake Constance with Philip's sister the Dowager Margravine of Baden, Elizabeth visited the Nymphenburg porcelain factory in Munich and watched the German Olympics equestrian team go through its paces. Over a lunch of lobster Vierjahreszeiten, duckling a I'orange, peaches Bavarian and four German wines, she heard Bavaria's Premier Alfons Goeppel talk of the need for friendship between Britain and Germany. "We have been slow, perhaps, in realizing this," he said. "But there the famous phrase of your nation applies-better late than never...