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Last week the 90-member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Eleazar de Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction...
Despite a few grumbles from musicians getting used to the new hall, a black-tie audience at the inaugural concert found the setting pleasing enough. Composer Gunther Schuller conducted his new Fanfare for St. Louis to start things out in properly noisy fashion, and Conductor de Carvalho (who relinquishes his post at the end of the season to Czech-born Conductor Walter Susskind) made further agreeable noise with Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Stravinsky's Petrouchka. Some complained that the acoustics were somewhat plushy and over-resonant but at any rate preferable...
Five Red Demands. When Brigadier General Jose Nobre de Carvalho took over late last month as Macao's new Portuguese-appointed Governor, Macao's Communists demanded that the government 1) acknowledge responsibility for the Taipa incident, 2) punish a deputy police chief involved, 3) publicly burn all police truncheons, 4) promise an end to "attacks" on Macao's Chinese, and 5) compensate families of workmen injured during the incident itself...
...Guard-style demonstrators smashed store windows, tipped over every car in sight, pulled down statues, and sacked Macao's City Hall. The next day-early last week-5,000 took to the streets, and before order was restored eight were dead. At week's end De Carvalho had accepted the five demands and Macao was calm again, though the nervousness and unrest remained...
...Portuguese? Or just flexing its muscles after its setbacks in the rest of Asia? No one could be sure, but the Reds were clearly not yet finished. Having won their first five demands, they were making five more demands at week's end, including the sacking of De Carvalho's police commissioner...