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Piston's Symphony No. 2 (DGG, $6.98). Like Randall Thompson's mellifluous Symphony No. 2 (Leonard Bern stein; Columbia), this eloquently traditional 28-year-old work has survived the original scorn of avant-gardists who should have been hung by their own dog mas. Proud of theme, opulent of chord, it is performed with missionary brio by Michael Tilson Thomas and the Bos ton Symphony...
...Civil War provides only slightly less rewarding material for Fair's connoisseurship. His favorite humbler seems to be one of the Union's least renowned commanders, General Ambrose Burnside. As Fair tells it, Burnside was so bad that he won at least one small victory-at New Bern, N.C., in 1862-simply because the Confederates were taken by surprise by his aggressive imbecility in storming well-protected defenses. On other occasions he was less lucky. At the battle of Antietam, for example, he spent hours trying to take a bridge to cross a shallow creek that...
Harvard's All-American Joe Cavanagh has rejected an opportunity to fly to Bern, Switzerland and compete with the United States amateur team in the 1971 world ice hockey championships. "I've got too much unfinished school business hanging over my head." Cavanagh said yesterday...
Born finally provided an answer. Unlike the motion of celestial bodies, he said, the movement and position of electrons cannot be precisely determined. Only the statistical probability of their position can be ascertained with accuracy. The idea was brilliantly elaborated by Bern's colleague, Werner Heisenberg, but it provoked serious challenge. Even Bern's old friend, Einstein, with whom he often played violin sonatas, did not believe that particle motion-or, indeed, any basic phenomena in nature-was so completely in the grip of chance. "God may be subtle," said Einstein, "but he is not malicious...
Christo Javacheff is a peripatetic Bulgarian whose art consists of wrapping things-big things. He has previously wrapped the Kunsthalle in Bern, a fountain in Spoleto and the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art. For Christmas, he would like to wrap all the trees on the Champs Elysées, Paris permitting. Australia, however, can claim the distinction of having the first natural landscape to be wrapped...