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A sacred festival drama in three acts by WAGNER sung in German
AMFORTAS...George London (baritone) (bass)(bass)(tenor) (baritone) (soprano) (tenor)(bass) (soprano)(mezzo-soprano)(tenor)(tenor) (soprano)(soprano) (soprano)(soprano)(soprano)(mezzo-soprano)
Knights of the Grail, youths, boys, flower maidens
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA of the BAYREUTH FESTIVAL
Chorus-Master, Wilhelm Pitz
Conducted by HANS KNAPPERTSBUSCH
Producer, Wieland Wagner ACT 1
Scene 1: A glade In the woods near the Grail Castle
Scene 2: The hall of the Grail castle

Contributors

Baritone:
George London
Chorus-Master:
Wilhelm Pitz
Conducted By:
Hans Knappertsbusch
Producer:
Wieland Wagner
TITUREL:
Josef Greindl
GURNEMANZ:
Ludwig Weber
PARSIFAL:
Jess Thomas
Klingsor:
Gustav Neidlinger
KUNDRY:
Irene Dalis
KNIGHTS OF THE GRAIL:
Niels Möller
KNIGHTS OF THE GRAIL:
David Ward
ESQUIRES:
Claudia Hellman
ESQUIRES:
Ruth Hesse
ESQUIRES:
Gerhard Stolze
ESQUIRES:
Georg Paskuda
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Dorothea Siebert
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Anja Silja
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Claudia Hellmann
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Gundula Janowitz
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Rita Bartos
FLOWER MAIDENS:
Ruth Hesse
AN ALTO VOICE:
Ursula Boese

by Thomas Blackburn
Certain difficult experiences can drive the child away from a hostile everyday world, and send him down into the depths of himself. It was Freud who first labelled these depths the Unconscious. But although psychologists have given new names to some of the creatures of this shadowy world, it is still the abode of were-wolf and vampire, the wise witch woman and the talking fish. Thomas Blackburn describes his childhood journey into these ' forests of the night' and some of the creatures he encountered.

Contributors

Unknown:
Thomas Blackburn
Unknown:
Thomas Blackburn

Five talks by W. G. Runciman Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge Mr. Runciman speaks on the general nature of social science, with special reference to political behaviour and the misuse of such overrated terms as Left and Right. He cites a quotation of Max Weber 's from Tolstoy: ' Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to the only important question for us: What shall we do and how shall we live? ' ind suggests that if we can answer thli; question at all we need political philosophers with the best knowledge of social science and political sociologists with an adequate grasp of philosophy. Mr. Runciman thinks it is a pity that both sides have kept themselves, on purpose, as separate as possible.
1: What is Social Science ?
The social scientist who asks ' what is life like among the so-and-so's ' is a little like a natural scientist's getting off a train at Brighton and asking ' what is matter like in Sussex? '

Contributors

Unknown:
Max Weber

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