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Last week the boyish, 35-year-old nontraditionalist turned up in Wilton, Conn., for some piano practice and stocktaking. He was homeward bound for a concert tour after 17 years in London, where he has produced a widely performed repertory of orchestral, ballet and chamber music, plus several operas that have been making the rounds of English and Continental houses. As for stocktaking, he could count in a substantial success two weeks ago at Newport, R.I., where...
...England two years ago, Assistant Met Manager John Gutman heard Williamson's 45-minute chamber-opera setting of Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince...
...mechanical wizard named Felix Wankel invented it in 1954, but it took NSU 13 years of tinkering to bring the "Wankel engine" to its present stage. It is a non-piston gas engine consisting of a three-cornered rotor that swirls in a combustion chamber shaped like a fat-waisted figure eight. Doing away with the stop-and-start movements of the piston engine saves valuable power for a continuous circular movement. The RO 80 will feature two half-liter engines, placed side by side, yet even this will only take up half as much space as a conventional motor...
...Verdi's journeyman days as Attila, The Corsair and Joan of Arc, in which the Maid dies not at the stake but on the battlefield. Later in the day, in one or another of the marble-and-crystal salons in Newport's stately mansions, the offerings included chamber and vocal music by operatic composers, excerpts from other unfamiliar 19th century operas (including the "other" La Boheme, composed by Ruggiero Leoncavallo only months after Puccini's), and a program of knuckle-breaking operatic paraphrases by Franz Liszt, played by Guest Pianist Raymond Lewenthal...
...year-old Brooklyn woman had survived the first few critical hours after a severe heart attack and should have been on her way to recovery. But part of the muscle in the wall of her left ventricle, the heart's main pumping chamber, was too badly damaged to snap back spontaneously. Six hours after the patient reached the hospital, she was in shock-blue in the face and in a cold sweat. Doctors at Brooklyn's Maimonides Medical Center wanted to give her circulation a boost, at least for a few hours. If her heart could be relieved...