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Though Henze's melodies were somewhat diffuse, critics were impressed with the lavish production put on by the Bavarian State Opera which featured Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Soprano Ingeborg Bremert, and they were unanimous in their praise. Said the authoritative Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung: "Henze has arrived at the point of decision. All the lessons which he learned from Verdi, Berg, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Britten and Weill have been absorbed in his tremendously creative feeling for sounds and his sense of the dramatic." This mixture of old and new, of atonality and traditional harmony, was precisely what Henze was after...
...project's prize treasure is 400 boxes containing 1,000,000 quotations from ancient parchments, bequeathed to the monastery in 1927 by Father Josef Denk, curate of a sleepy parish near Munich, who had spent most of his life in the reading room of the Bavarian State Library. Beuron's whole task probably cannot be completed before 2050. So far the institute has published 26 installments, covering if volumes of Vetus Latina's 35 books. By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads...
...pine-swathed Bavarian mountain last week, U.S. Hunter Jack Johnson and his German guide suffered silently through a bone-chilling predawn drizzle. Suddenly, the woods ahead came alive to a bizarre sound: a series of clucks, like popping champagne corks, followed by a throaty gurgle. Johnson lurched forward for three steps, only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled...
Hiebeler carefully recruited three crack climbers for his party: a tough Bavarian carpenter named Anton Kinshofer, 27; a pink-cheeked Bavarian sawmill hand named Andreas Mannhardt, 22; and an Austrian named Walter Almberger, 28, who worked in an iron mine 1.600 ft. below the earth's surface. For quick energy, the methodical Hiebeler got an Austrian jam factory to devise a special marmalade packed with calories and vitamins. He designed boots armored with three layers of outer leather; he bought special plastic helmets and tough, extra-thin ropes. Keeping their plans a tight secret, the men practiced all winter...
...Brecht's Communism was uncceptable to the Communist critics, and his satire of capitalist society lacked applicability within the Soviet Union, where audiences were confronted with entirely different sets of problems. Unforgiven on the left for his bourgeois origins and preoccupations, this son of a wealthy Bavarian paper manufacturer was simultaneously feared on the right. A self-made Marxist, Brecht was left an ideological orphan...