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...went from coast to coast. The music season was on with the blast of trumpets, the scraping of fiddles, the cries from the voice boxes of a thousand singers. The sounds rose in immense variety from symphony orchestras and chamber-music groups, from hallowed opera houses and bare school auditoriums. The music was modern and ancient, classic and romantic, expertly and miserably played. There was so much of it that the whole U.S. recording industry could not get it down on vinyl and all the hi-fi sets in the U.S. could not play it back...
Tours. The virtuosos, the prima donnas, the chamber-music ensembles and practically any other type of musical group worth mentioning packed their bags for tours to big cities and small towns. There was scarcely a well-known musician or musical group, American or European, that was not set to take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa...
...languages, including Russian, Chinese and eleven others of Communist-sphere countries. Announcers are 20 Jesuits, each a language specialist. U.S. short-wave sets can receive the station in the 31-, 41-and 48-meter bands. In addition to news, theological talks and church ceremonies, the new broadcasts will include chamber music once a week...
...House of Commons settled down to its first full day's work, Diefenbaker strolled across the Chamber to shake hands with his old adversary, Liberal St. Laurent. Then moving a few paces farther, he offered a warm handshake to Lester Bowles Pearson, Secretary of State for External Affairs in the old Liberal government and now an ordinary M.P. Reason: word had just reached Ottawa that the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament had awarded "Mike" Pearson its Peace Prize−the first ever to go to a Canadian...
...Pretty, smartly gowned Mrs. Robert North, 37, now secretary of the American Chamber of Commerce in Thailand, who went there as the wife of a Hollywood screen writer in 1950. She stayed on after his death to run her own bottling and solid carbon dioxide works by putting up $10,000 herself, raising the other $150,000 in local funds. Worth of her business today:$350,000. Yearly profit: upwards...