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...records were our only means of connection with this world that we couldn't experience live. The advantage in those days was that the records we had were conducted by Arturo Toscanini, Wilhelm Furtwangler, Leopold Stokowski and Sir Thomas Beecham. So although the sound was quite primitive, the tempos were right. These were interpretations that I have carried with me ever since. And I must tell you, in those days I thought it was a good sound--until I went to Vienna...
...question of German victimhood has been much-discussed all year. This past spring, Nobel prizewinning novelist Günter Grass published Im Krebsgang (Crab Walk), a novella about the millions who perished on the eastern front and in particular the 1945 sinking in the Baltic Sea of the Wilhelm Gustloff, when as many as 9,000 lives were lost. The debate about the novel soon centered on the political correctness of dealing in literary form with the once-taboo suffering of German wartime refugees fleeing from the Red Army. Even beyond the similar, painful debate it has caused, Der Brand...
...sick and world-weary, every object and place reminding him of his lost love and impending death. Such is the stuff of Franz Schubert’s Winterreise, surely the most beloved of song-cycles and one of the greatest challenges a singer can take on. The marriage of Wilhelm Müller’s 24 poems and Schubert’s evocative music is one of the defining moments of German Romanticism. It takes a singer with just the right amount of assuredness and vulnerability to pull it off successfully...
Engel's trial, expected to begin in May or June, comes at a time when new attention has been focused on the war years by a book, Crab Walk, by Nobel-prizewinning author Günter Grass. The work deals with the 1945 sinking of the ship Wilhelm Gustloff by a Russian submarine as it steamed from Danzig (present day Gdansk, Poland) back to Germany. More than 7,000 passengers, mostly German women and children, drowned in the incident. The book, which tops best-seller lists in Germany, has sold more than 300,000 copies and has inspired front-page...
...hate it, like the Dadaists, but he poked fun at it, as in The Great Emperor Rides to War, 1920, an absurd military apparition that seems to be wearing a mosque on its head. Only afterward do you realize how like the spiked helmet of the recently defeated Kaiser Wilhelm this piece of costume...