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...that was a wonder of elegance, discipline and response. Every detail of every number seemed illuminated; all the balances were precise. Although the Cleveland sound was handsome and full-bodied, the visiting orchestra tried for, and consistently achieved, something rare in a large orchestra-the internal clarity of a chamber group...
Because both Barbaud and Blanchard are modernists, much influenced by Schoenberg, they have instructed Gamma in the twelve-tone scale so that it can spew forth Schoenbergian chamber works on punched tape with confidence and ease. Says Barbaud: "They are in some respects better, artistically as well as technically, than some of Schoenberg's works...
...flew into Los Angeles for a round of speechmaking that proved he still had the old political magic: he stopped traffic for blocks around, flashed the grin at supporters wearing buttons that proclaimed, "I Miss Ike." packed the Hollywood Palladium for a speech at the annual Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce banquet, and drew nearly 100 to hear him talk at a Republican fund-raising dinner-at $500 a plate...
...presenting a series of Sunday afternoon chamber music concerts, Club Mount Auburn 47 aims for quality somewhere between the Paganini String Quartet and a student recital. The Mount Auburn Quartet's program of yesterday afternoon fell exactly where it should, in the middle: not really professional, but quite good enough...
Just beyond the spark chamber, shielded by many feet of concrete and steel, curves the half-mile ring of Brookhaven's 30-bev (30 billion electron volts) synchrotron, world's largest atom smasher. If the physicists' calculations are correct, when the synchrotron goes into operation one of its products will be a vast number of neutrinos, snippets of energy powerful enough to penetrate the shielding and slip into the chamber, where they may be spotted by means of spark trails. Scientists expect to decipher the trails and learn some of the deepest secrets of the universe...