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Conductor Bentley Layton chose a wise program for his chamber orchestra, and performed it with security, confidence, and a very welcome accuracy. Layton apparently did his work with the orchestra before the concert. Last minute attempts to save a sinking orchestra were totally absent from his podium performance; he infused the orchestral sound with the proper delicacy and care...
...Monumentum pro Gesualdo di Venosa received a bludgeoning the Bach Society had not intended to give it; someone in the orchestra arrived after the concert had begun. Naturally the counterpoint had strange empty spots. Monumentum, composed in 1960 on Gesualdo's four-hundredth birthday, is essentially an alteration for chamber music of three of Gesualdo's madrigals. Even if one makes allowances for what was missing on Friday, Stravinsky's version sounded sadly disjointed in comparison with the original vocal settings if the madrigals. Stravinsky achieves coloring effects-alternating strings and horns in block chords in the fourth movement...
...Swainson campaigned for Governor on the claim that he could get along with the Republican legislators. He knew them well-as senate minority leader and as Williams' lieutenant governor presiding over the chamber-and he had always been on friendly personal terms with them. Skinning into office by 4,000 votes, Swainson at first tried playing pal with the legislative Republicans. He got nowhere. This year he turned tough, tried to ram through a fiscal reform program that included a 3% income tax. He still got nowhere. In the past fiscal year, Michigan's deficit increased...
...nationalization of the power industry (TIME, Oct. 5), a meaningless economic move, was a sop to the Socialists, who hold no Cabinet posts, but whose 88 votes in the Chamber of Deputies keep Premier Amintore Fanfani's government in power. The next measure the Socialists are demanding is the creation of 15 regional governments in Italy, a move opposed by many Christian Democrats because it would give the left a dangerous amount of local power if the Socialists remained tied to the Reds...
...highest musical tribute on the Connecticut-born beauty singing the leading role of Titania. She was Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall, 34, who for the past ten years has made Vienna home base and last year took her first bows at the Met. Her new title: Kammersängerin (chamber singer), the first time an American-born artist has ever received the award...