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...other new ballets-Ashton's La Péri and MacMillan's Noctambules-failed despite inspired and startling flashes of choreographic brilliance. The most ballyhooed premiere of all was Prince of the Pagodas (TIME, Jan. 14) by John Cranko, with music by Benjamin Britten (his first ballet score). Choreographer Cranko's splintered story had in it recurrent themes from Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, plus snatches of court intrigue reminiscent of King Lear viewed through the wrong end of the telescope. The stage was roiled by gaudy dancers, the sets were feverish with color, but despite...
...Persian tar. Cowell was also able, in the past year, to work on a 13th symphony, write a two-movement piece with a "Japanese feel" titled Ongaku (music), and compose, on commission, a national anthem for the new state of Malay (it was rejected, along with entries by Benjamin Britten and others, in favor of a Malayan folk tune named Bright Moonlight...
...alienated music lovers and continued his vendetta against cameramen by showing up at a concert with Grace ten minutes late, strong-arming a photographer who tried to snap him and his half-sprouted goatee. Then, at intermission, petulant Rainier walked out on Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Composer Benjamin Britten before a performance of five of Britten's short pieces...
This week a Britain that had receded a long way from Kipling paid affectionate if slightly embarrassed tribute to Sir Edward Elgar on the centennial of his birth. Extravagantly overpraised in his own day, Elgar is now in the shadows. The colder airs of Benjamin Britten rule Britannia- so much so that critics are taking pains to point out that Elgar, after all, was a skilled and inventive composer who opened a whole new musical tradition for his musically backward country...
...life of an artist is too hard"). Two years ago they made the mistake of buying a piano, which Ates promptly began to play. After only 22 lessons, his music teacher sent him home, saying "I can't teach him any more." Last year visiting British Composer Benjamin Britten heard Ates play two original compositions, became so enthusiastic that the Parses decided to let their son try for a travel grant. Said a wistful Mrs. Pars in her Montparnasse hotel room last week: "We knew...