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...VIEW FROM POMPEY'S HEAD (409 pp.) - Hamilton Basso - Doubleday...
...View from Pompey's Head, by Hamilton Basso, a successful New York lawyer is forced by a legal complication to return to his Southern home town for the first time in 15 years. So home he goes, dipping back into his stucco and magnolia origins, reappraising his whole adult life, and raising the shades of youthful loves before finally drawing the shade upon his past...
Almost Real. Meticulously, Novelist Basso examines the town's tribal customs, ancestor worship and social strata on the other side of the railroad tracks. New Orleans-born "Ham" Basso has done a thorough job of reconstruction. His town is like one of those skillfully done scale models seen in Christmas shop windows, of which people exclaim: "My, it almost looks real!" The trouble is that nothing very interesting or moving happens in the town. There is neither humor nor tragedy in Pompey's rather empty Head-not even a good hangover...
John Blow: Venus and Adonis (Margaret Ritchie, Gordon Clinton; orchestra and chorus conducted by Anthony Lewis : L'Oiseau-Lyre). A late 17th century opera, complete with basso continuo, cupids, and Venus' own recipe for happy love...
There were meetings, too. Basso Berney Simmer, 51, of St. Louis, a district manager for Acme Visible Records, Inc. (business files), was elected president of the organization. Most important of all were the contests. Beginning with semifinals, in which 40 quartets and 22 choruses participated, the convention ended with a wall-rocking sing-off for the quartet Medalist prize. In Constitution Hall (dubbed Harmony Hall for the occasion) the big finals began with a Wichita, Kans. group called the Orphans. Dressed in blue tailored coats and pants and red bow ties, the quartet sang a smooth When the Bell...