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WITHOUT LOVE, by Gerald Hanley (245 pp.; Harper; $3.50), has a theme that might be described as disgrace under pressure. Mike Brennan, the seedy son of a lace-curtain London-Irish family, is hanging around present-day Barcelona waiting to commit just one last political murder before he tells all to a priest. Like Britain's London-Irish William Joyce (Lord Haw Haw), Brennan had fallen out of the church into Mosley's Blackshirts. Via the Nazi SS, he becomes, by double desertion, a journeyman executioner for Russia's secret police. Yet he is not a devoted...
...crowd of 4000, begging for an upset, roared when the lanky star from Barcelona grabbed the first set, but Laver promptly swept the next three. Ken Rose-wall salvaged third place by defeating fellow Aussie Fred Stolle...
During the Cleveland Orchestra's breakneck European tour (eleven countries, 29 concerts in 41 days), its reception has been in tune with the critic of Paris' Le Monde, who thought that he had "never heard anything more excellent." In Barcelona audiences cheered their approval of the orchestra's classical repertory. For Budapest-born Conductor George Szell, the greatest recognition came in Vienna. where that dean of critics, grumpy old (83) Max Graf, who knew Szell as a boy, voiced one of his rare, muted raves. "The sounds," he said, "were good indeed...
That long, extraordinary career began in the small, dusty Catalan town of Vendrell, south of Barcelona, where Casals' father was a church organist. By the time the boy was eleven, he had mastered the organ, piano and violin and had turned to the cello and the music of Bach (later he was to begin each of his days by playing a few minutes of Bach's Well Tempered Clavichord). Packed off to Barcelona to study, he played in a gambling casino to support himself. Said one awed casino patron: "He transformed a cage into a concert hall...
...fast as he found them, Marvin played them. "You can't imagine the thrill," he says, "of knowing I was the first man to hear them since the 18th century." Back at the Escorial, Marvin pried loose 33 additional sonatas, picked up more in Barcelona and at King's College, Cambridge. Last week's recital revealed Soler as a composer of technical virtuosity and sharply contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic...