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Favored Countries. For ten days, the green-and-gold Council chamber rang with debate over Mother Portugal's Africa-the largest European empire still intact, one which is plagued by poverty, rebellion, and (in the words of nationalists) "totalitarianism tempered by inefficiency." In a fascinating train of logic, the Africans argued that because they themselves are threatening to "liberate" the territories, Portugal's continued presence in them endangers the peace...
...years ago Dr. White formed the "Committee for Safe Bicycling." Hoiyoke's Chamber of Commerce, backed by the Western Massachusetts Heart Association, responded to the committee's urging and prepared a circuit of trails around Ashley and McLean reservoirs. While the cyclists waited impatiently, the grand old man of American cardiology blessed the enterprise with a physiological text...
...MARLBORO FESTIVAL (July 12-Sept. 2) in Vermont is really a sort of busman's holiday for fine musicians. None of the 85 or so instrumentalists are paid; instead, most contribute $625 apiece to meet expenses. Free from concert pressures, the musicians split up into informal chamber music groups and play precisely what they please. The knowledgeable public that attends the weekend concerts does not always know exactly what work will be played, but does know that it will be performed with love, zest, and craftsmanlike precision. There is no cult of personality at Marlboro despite the musical giants...
Just such intimacy between musicians and audiences once characterized performances of chamber music and was one of its greatest strengths. But the rapport was broken when chamber music moved into large concert halls, for which it was never intended. Four seasons ago, deciding that "Italy has gone through great decadence in chamber music," Menotti launched the midday series at Spoleto as a long-shot restorative. Each summer since, about 50 similarly dedicated instrumentalists and singers from abroad have turned up for the series on nothing more than Menotti's promise of bed and board. They have performed everything from...
Classical Jam Session. This season big-name musicians performing at the festival's full-dress evening productions began to treat the chamber-music series as a sort of classical jam session. Thomas Schippers, who conducted the Spoleto Messiah, stopped by to play piano duets with a series regular, John Browning. Last week Browning backed up U.S. Conductor Robert La Marchina (Traviata), who was up early for the sake of a tuneful Rachmaninoff piano-cello sonata. What's more, the musicians' enthusiasm for the series seems to be shared by an Italian concert public long uninterested in chamber...