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...distinctly amused by, more magnetic centers of civilization. Thus, a part of the show parodies national types ranging from Italian gondoliers to U.S. cowboys, from French amorists to supranational cool-jazz combos. In a beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...
...days before he died last week of a heart attack, Bavarian-born Hans Hofmann, 85, stopped by at Manhattan's Kootz Gallery to see his current exhibition, 21 large oils, all but two painted within the last year. A pretty, 13-year-old schoolgirl, feasting her eyes on the bright rectangles aswim in impastes of Christmas-color oils, turned to the great, grey, shambling man and asked timidly, "Aren't you Mr. Hofmann?" With a beam, he nodded, replied, "And of course you paint yourself." For him there was no higher activity and he meant...
Schickele explains solemnly that he first stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
Died. Dowager Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 89, Bavarian-born widow of King Albert, mother of ex-King Leopold III and grandmother of reigning King Baudouin, long revered for the heroism and charity she displayed in both World Wars and esteemed as one of Europe's leading art patrons, but whose unfortunate espousal of left-wing causes in the last ten years brought embarrassment to the government and ultimately exasperated a long-tolerant public, earning her the derisive label "Red Queen"; of a heart attack; in Stuyvenberg Palace, near Brussels...
Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...