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Both men were already members of the Central Committee's inner sanctum, the Presidium. Now, as secretaries of the committee as well, they move into the most elite echelon of the Soviet hier archy. Only four other Red leaders hold such a double position, and none is Khrushchev's likely successor. The four: Frol Kozlov, 54, who suffered a severe stroke in April; elderly Otto Kuusinen, 81; Senior Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, 60, compromised by a Stalinist past; and Khrushchev himself...
...spun and beautifully controlled. This vocal gold was at the service of an extraordinary musical intelligence in the Hugo Wolf group which followed the intermission: each song, as Miss Schwarzkopf rendered it, became a drama in miniature. The alternately anguished and tender dialogue of Herr, was traegt der Boden hier, the elaborate pathos of Bedeckt mich mis Bluemen, were projected with mastery; no less remarkable--for Schwarzkopf dearly loves a song in which she can be girlish and winning--was the sly humor of In dem Schatten meiner Locken ("In the shadow of my tresses, my lover fell asleep"), where...
...gefachrlich, hier ueber die Strasse zu gehen...
...church itself hesitated. The hier archy was reluctant to jeopardize state-granted privileges. Then last summer a so-called Catholic organization called "For the Cross and Fatherland" suddenly materialized. Small in numbers, it looked nevertheless like Castro's bid to set up in Cuba the sort of National Catholic Church that Communists have tried to ar range behind the Iron Curtain...
...first half be given over to J. S. Bach. There was the monumental Prelude and Fugue in G Major; and the three-movement Trio Sonata No. 1 in E Flat, one of the most treacherous challenges in the entire literature. Of the two chorale-preludes, Liebster Jesu, wir sind hier presented a constant parade of startling dissonances. Later periods were represented by Mozart's charming, if second-drawer, Sonata No. 15 in C; Brahms' rich-textured Fugue in A Flat Minor (a most rare key); and Hermann Schroeder's chorale-prelude Schoenster Herr Jesu...