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...point during the debate, about half adozen contra aid protesters interrupted the floorproceedings briefly by standing up and shouting,"No Contra aid!" and "End the war now!" Thedemonstrators were hustled out of the chamber,handcuffed and carted off by police...
...again last week. But it was fitting. Six weeks after Hart burst back into the Democratic race, the surge of excitement has subsided. Even in Ottawa, where he was born and raised, the ardor has cooled. Only a few hours before his nephew was to appear before the local chamber of commerce, not even Uncle Ralph Hartpence could resist telling a Gary-and-Donna joke...
...Love, is not likely to be produced at the Metropolitan Opera House any time soon, but it appears to be the closest thing to a conventional opera he has yet composed. Based on the 1955 novel by David Garnett, a member of the Bloomsbury group, Aspects is an intimate chamber work that examines the lives and loves of a small circle of friends. "Aspects will come out closer in scale to a kind of Mozartian piece," promises the composer. "It will require from me a very firm technique, and the scenes will have to be far more set pieces...
...legislative election promises to be even more of a farce. As of last week the newly seated election council, handpicked by Namphy, could not furnish the name of a single candidate for any of the 27 Senate or 77 Chamber of Deputy seats. Moreover, election conditions will hardly be democratic. Under a new electoral law, soldiers will be permitted to enter polling places, but independent observers and journalists will not. The new law also requires voters to show officials their marked ballots...
This may seem a severe indictment of a healthy "industry"; audiences for concert music and opera are probably larger than ever. The postwar cultural revolution spawned scores of new orchestras, opera companies and chamber-music groups; there are now 1,572 symphony orchestras in the country, almost as many as the number of daily newspapers. Visits of major domestic and international ensembles to Carnegie Hall still provoke feeding frenzies among ticket buyers. Everywhere, it seems, there are more performances, longer seasons, higher budgets, higher fees -- and higher costs...