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...Rome, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Capi-tol-Telefunken, 2 sides LP). Although his Red Poppy ballet music is better known, this is probably the best work of 75-year-old Reinhold Gliere, dean of Russian composers (see above). Finished in 1911, it is based on the legend of the Paul Bunyan-like Russian folk hero, Ilya Murometz. Huge in concept, it sometimes sounds like such non-Russians as Sibelius or Bruckner. Performance and recording: good...
These Paul Bunyan engines are intended primarily for expendable guided missiles. Since a ram jet does not have to carry its own oxygen, as a rocket does, it is seven times more efficient. But since ram jets have no power at all when standing still, the missile will probably be tossed into the air by a great booster rocket. When it reaches a sufficient speed (something like 500 m.p.h.) the ram jet will take over. Wright's experts also foresee another use for the big new ram jets: when airplanes fly at 2,000 m.p.h., they believe...
...music lovers have tried hard to keep abreast of Britain's fast-moving young (35) Composer Benjamin Britten. They have seen and heard three of his operas (Paul Bunyan, Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia) among other things, had three operas and a score of other works to go. Last week, Serge Koussevitzky gave his Berkshire Music Center fans a chance to catch two Britten premi...
...John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, the man with the Muckrake is too busy raking the "dust of the floor" to look up when offered a celestial crown...
Last week Denver's course in folklore was going high, wide & handsome. It now has a firm place in the curriculum. The course is not compulsory, but 420 kids this year begged for the chance to try it. They read all about Bunyan, and how he wept so much when his blue ox Babe fell ill, that his tears formed the Great Salt Lake. Then the kids make maps of Utah...