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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...
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...
...white creatures spit bullets in Mr. Charlie's small Southern town. Baldwin's battle of the races pits Lyle Britten (Rip Torn), a poor-white grocery-store keeper, against Richard Henry (Al Freeman Jr.), an ex-dope addict recently returned from New York and the son of the local Negro pastor. Both men are deformed spirits, the white envenomed by poverty, the Negro by hatred of his father and his father's compromises with oppression. Arrogant, mocking, indefensible in his behavior, Henry humiliates Britten in front of Britten's wife. The white man demands an apology...
...Shutter's Creak. The Plague is neither as sustained nor complex as Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, but it invites comparison to that modern masterwork in its personal comment on a desperate universal theme. A Spanish exile who lives in near hermitry outside Cambridge, Gerhard spent more than a year fashioning his brilliantly distilled-libretto from Stuart Gilbert's translation of the novel, then found the music for his words in six more months. The score has only the merest wisps of melody, but the music achieves some deeply stirring and unnerving moments -as when an orchestral...
...Benjamin Britten: War Requiem (London). Britten conducts the Bach and Highgate school choirs and the London Symphony Orchestra (Vishnevskaya, Pears and Fischer-Dieskau, soloists) in a reverent performance...