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...author, Benjamin Britten, a leading composer of modern operas, must have had a wonderful time writing this. The complete originality of the first act either charms or annoys the listener, depending on his own responsiveness. The children appear as awful amateurs who have only enthusiasm. And when conductor Norman Del Mar comes out to rehearse the audience, the thing really gets silly. His charm and cunning slowly leads the audience into loud and violent song. At one point, they must imitate birds, and the "Kaaahs" and "To-whoos" ring out through the theatre...
...Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Composed in 1937, this Mass, austerely but tenderly reverent, is one of the best works that have yet come from Frenchman Francis Poulenc. Shaw's clean choral work is up to his usual high standard. On the other side: Benjamin Britten's graceful A Ceremony of Carols. Recording: excellent...
Fadden also reported that Stanley Britten, a six-foot, three inch sophomore end, sprained an ankle during Tuesday's practice, and did not realize it until late Tuesday night. It is doubtful whether Britten, first siring defensive right end, will be able to play against the Lions...
...berths in Broadway's 17 unoccupied theaters. As usual, playgoers can look forward to a full schedule of musicals : Lindsay & Grouse's Call Me Madam, boasting Ethel Merman, an Irving Berlin score, and a $700,000 advance sale; Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...some of the festival's choral numbers, he had assembled 1,800 singers, including some 600 children. Once the enthusiasm had to be coaxed out of the kids. Rehearsing Benjamin Britten's Spring Symphony, Busch urged the boys to make their whistling less "polite"; he promptly got a resounding wolf whistle, and smiled his appreciation. Said he: "They know their stuff. I bring it out of them...