Word: briefings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OSCAR GHIGLIA: GUITAR MUSIC OF FOUR CENTURIES (Angel). An anointed disciple of Andres Segovia ("Most meritorious a young Master"), the 28-year-old Italian guitarist goes from Frescobaldi and Dowland up to Villa-Lobos with brief musical sketches that contrast as widely in mood as in century. His forte seems to be the modern works by the Mexican Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, in which he gives an almost exolosive account...
...current system, tend to induct poor boys, Negroes and school dropouts, while sparing richer or brainier youngsters. Many Americans feel uneasy-and the draftee may feel downright angry-that the 971,000 active reservists and National Guardsmen are exempted from extended military service for the price of a brief training period and periodic home drills. Last week both the President and Congress took note, in different ways, of the rising dissatisfaction with the draft-which, the Defense Department announced, will be boosted for the month of October to a peacetime record...
...made it harder for men to get divorces, and gave women their first, real legal rights. He looked on approvingly as the Moslem veil began to vanish, and he has shown no objection to the new garb of girls who parade gracefully through the narrow streets of Tunis in brief, airy frocks. But one has to draw the line somewhere, and last week Bourguiba did-just below the knee-by banning the thigh-high miniskirt...
...Nazis only to find themselves displaced and placeless in the wreckage of postwar Europe. They seemed anything but superfluous to British Novelist Charity Blackstock (Mr. Christopoulos, Monkey on a Chain). Working through a British Jewish relief agency, Mrs. Blackstock brought about 500 Jewish adolescents to England, installed them for brief holidays in Jewish homes. She enjoyed her work so much that when agency funds ran out after five years, she went to France to work in Jewish orphanages there...
...Sumphony of Psalms is always a treacherous adventure. Since it so often concentrates on developing a brief melody by very slight changes in the background harmony or by interchanging the chords backing up the melody, any subtlety of phrasing that is missed when the melody first appears becomes painfully magnified. Conductor Schmidt was most successful in evading this trap, leaving only the "Alleluia" motifs in the last movement a bit raw. A very strange circumstance about the performance was that the tiredness of chorus and conductor after wading through all that went before resulted in exactly the right amount...