Word: nikolaus
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...proved well worth waiting for. Indeed, blessed with a first-rate cast, a skilled if not always inspired conductor, and a director with strong dramatic ideas about the piece, it must rank as one of the best stagings in recent memory. Objections may be raised about some of Director Nikolaus Lehnhoff's departures from Wagnerian canon in an otherwise traditionalist view of the work. But there can be no disputing the high quality of the vocalism. Since 1976, there has been a director's Ring (Patrice Chereau's Wagner-as-social-revolution) and a conductor's Ring (Sir Georg Solti...
Liszt tapped another fervid source of the legend in two episodes of Faust by the mad Hungarian poet Nikolaus Lenau, who wrote his own treatment of the demoniac tale. Nocturnal Procession, a stately, spooky march of Gregorian- chanting penitents, is one of the composer's most original and beautiful creations. The Dance in the Village Inn, better known as the First Mephisto Waltz, sweeps forward with a cloven-hoofed fiddler calling the tune...
...Johann Nikolaus Forkel in J.S. Bach's Life, Art and Works. For Patriotic Admirers of True Musical...
...well-known gnomes of Zurich were forced to forgo their normally reclusive ways. At endless town and village meetings, they argued that passage would seriously threaten Switzerland's position as the world's third leading banking center, behind New York City and London, and cause economic catastrophe. Nikolaus Senn, head of the Union Bank, Switzerland's largest financial institution, maintained that foreign funds would flee the country, leading to a collapse in Swiss stock prices, a jump in interest rates and the loss of thousands of jobs...
DIED. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, 81, art historian and architectural critic; in London. A university lecturer in Germany who fled Hitler in 1933, Pevsner became a devoted student and admirer of his adoptive England, where a fascination with the society and its architecture inspired his 46-volume, still definitive critique The Buildings of England, which he wrote from 1951 to 1974. A comprehensively informed, exhaustively organized scholar, who taught at both Cambridge and Oxford, Pevsner supervised and contributed to a multivolume history of world...