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...three years, Midwest music lovers who like to settle down to five hours of Richard Wagner's Parsifal in the closing days of Lent have been heading for Bloomington, Ind. Indiana University does not advertise the Palm Sunday Parsifal produced (in English) by its Opera Workshop, but those who have seen it have spread the word. Each year, more & more people, from Indianapolis, Louisville and Cincinnati, make the trek...
This week Bloomington (pop. 28,000) was filled with its biggest Wagner crowd yet. Some nibbled a "Parsifal" Supper ($1 buffet) in the university dining hall; others brought their own in boxes. Then, in the university auditorium (3,788 seats), they sat back while the first sounds from the 60-piece orchestra drifted up from the pit. Onstage, they saw simple and well-lighted sets, fresh and unstilted acting...
...professor who sang the role of Gurnemanz, the singers were all graduate and undergraduate students of the university. To lighten the singing load (and share the experience), there were two Parsifals and two Kundrys. A standout performance: that of Tenor Guy Owen Baker, 27, a veteran of all three Bloomington Parsifals, who sang the title role in Acts...
March.* In Bloomington, Ind., where Indiana University's Chemistry Professor E. E. Campaigne had just announced discovery of a new antihistamine drug to fight the common cold, the professor, his wife and two children came down with colds...
...anybody-except the Catholic Church." Two years ago, lecturing in London, he incurred Moscow's wrath by declaring: "Either we must have a war against Russia before she has the atom bomb, or we will have to lie down and let them govern us." Last week, at Bloomington, Ind., Russell thought East & West might still get along together. What was necessary, he said, was for both sides to forget their "stupid imperialism...