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When in Rome. By the time he was 25, Bing had become assistant to the Darmstadt Opera's famed Actor-Director Carl Ebert. Germany in those days, however, was rocking wildly. Bing, whose family for generations had been Roman Catholics (although one great-grandmother was Jewish), quickly got fed up with the Nazis and in 1933 left the country. With Ebert, he landed in England on a rolling Sussex Downs estate, and there the two founded the Glyndebourne Festival, the home of some of the finest Mozart performances heard anywhere. When World War II interrupted that idyl, Bing took...
...Edison Denisov, 37, from Siberia, teaches orchestration at the Moscow Conservatory. His cantata, The Suns of the Incas, which was performed in Darmstadt and Paris last year, combines elements of both twelve-tone and chance (improvisational) music. Named by his electronics professor father for Thomas Edison, Denisov is regarded as the most important and adventuresome of the new voices in Russian music...
Honeymoon Route. After taking leave of President Lübke and Chancellor Erhard, the royal couple journeyed up the Rhine past the famous rock of the Lorelei (the same route Victoria and Albert took on their honeymoon) and dined near Darmstadt with Prince Ludwig of Hesse and Rhine-the Queen's distant cousin and Philip's brother-in-law-in his 18th century hunting castle. It was in Bavaria, home of Germany's most unreconstructed royalists, that their warmest welcome awaited them. In Munich, schools were dismissed; the streets were lined by 8 a.m., two hours before...
...leader of Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Party, who as minister enthusiastically echoed der A he's support for NATO and the Common Market, while quietly pushing his own vision of a "Christian Western Europe" that would share a single culture, religion and constitution; of cancer; in Darmstadt, Germany...
Today Offenbach seems more the mockingbird. Even in his early works, disenchantment flickers at the edges of gaiety, and in Germany perhaps it seems the dignifying element of his work. Though Darmstadt re-creates his musiquettes with utter fidelity, the result is sometimes closer to strudel than soufflé. The orchestra plays impeccably, but without the elan that Paris gave to Offenbach, and he to it. Though every seat at every performance is filled with beaming burghers, the cancan line has not a single roguish wink for admiring males. Darmstadt is well pleased nonetheless. Landestheater Director Hering said last week...