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MUSIC FOR GLASS HARMONICA (Vox). "Glass music" was long in vogue: Gluck performed a "concerto upon 26 drinking glasses, tuned with spring water": Benjamin Franklin devised a popular "armonica," played by rubbing the edges of glass bowls. Bruno Hoffman has created his own 20th century instrument of tuned glasses to revive the literature and plays here works by Mozart and his contemporaries, setting the distant ethereal sounds adrift above flutes and violins...
During a tour of Tokyo eight years ago, Composer Benjamin Britten was introduced to "a totally new operatic experience"-a Japanese No drama. Fascinated by the stark economy of style and the eerie mixtures of guttural chants, drums and flute, Britten decided that it might be interesting to give an English background to the simple tale of Sumida-gawa- a demented mother seeking her lost child...
...winners of the award have been John R. Pringle '63 (swimming); Mark H. Mullin '62 (track and cross country): Charles D. Ravenel '61 (football and baseball) and Perry T. Boyden '61 (crew); Langley C. Keyes '60 (soccer and lacrosse); Robert R. Foster '59 (football and wrestling) and R. Dyke Benjamin '59 (cross country and track); Dale W. Junta '58 (tennis); John A. Simourian '57 (football and baseball); James P. Jorgenson '56 (swimming); Robert Rittenburg '55 (track); T. Jefferson Coolidge '54 (football and hockey...
Midst laurels stood: Comedian Bob Hope, 61, given the National Citizenship Award of the Military Chaplains Association for his "tireless, unselfish efforts" to bring "warmth and cheer by personal visits" to U.S. servicemen; Composer Benjamin Britten, 50, winner of the New York Music Critics' Circle awards in two categories-operatic (for A Midsummer Night's Dream) and choral (War Requiem); Thomas J. Watson Jr., 50, chairman of International Business Machines Corp., elected president of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America (he joined his first troop in Short Hills, N.J., on the day in 1927 that...
...incidental trivia of the did-you-know variety: President Arthur was known as "His Accidency"; U. S. Grant found his wife's crossed eyes rather endearing; Andrew Jackson's wife ordered an inaugural veil with the name JACKSON stitched in lace letters from ear to ear; Mrs. Benjamin Harrison had 2,000 azalea plants delivered daily. A supple cast treats this material with greater respect than it merits, but The White House remains less of a tribute to the nation's highest office than a gossipy raid on its prestige...