Word: germane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Faust, Part I (by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), though one of the world's supreme classics, seldom reaches the New York stage; Hamburg's Deutsches Shauspielhaus production, done in German at the City Center, is the first in 32 years...
There is reason enough for this: Faust, in one way when done in German, in another in English, poses a language barrier not easily breached.* For non-Germans, again, even the playable but overlong first half creates theatrical problems not easily solved. No one word or phrase-dramatic poem, epic drama-adequately characterizes a work that, teeming with ideas and treading so much ground, cannot but be something of a patchwork...
Jack M. Stein, professor of German, has been campaigning to increase the passing score on the College language test from 560 to 650 and, if possible, to require an additional course in the language. The CEP last Wednesday quickly vetoed the latter suggestion and eventually also decided not to change the 560 passing score...
...there any need for America to undertake such exchanges alone. Recently the U.S. has been pressuring West Germany to improve its dismal relationships with Poland, and the Germans have indicated a willingness to do more than shake hands. If--as seems likely--the Poles overcome their insistence that the best thing the Germans could do (short of drying up) is recognize East Germany, there is no reason why a combined U.S. and German cultural exchange program wouldn't help renew Poland's ties with the West East Europe is in intellectual ferment, and Kennedy could make better use of America...
...other composers whose New Music was performed included the German, Karlheinz Stockhausen, whose recent Zyklus for one percussionist appeared on the first half of the program. Designed to combine "the elements of free and determinate performances," Stock-hausen has given his instrumentalist sixteen pages of music which he may play in any order he chooses. Not having heard the work before, I found it difficult to determine whether the choice of the percussionist, Alain Jacquet, was a felicitous one. Zyklus was followed by Bruno Moderna's Musica su duo dimenzione, a dialogue for flute and stereo tape. The tape inedium...