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...program made a pass at traditional music (an opera by Prokofiev, piano works by Debussy and Ravel), but the score card was overwhelmingly modern: a sampling of contemporary Italian music played by the Milan Radio Orchestra, a concert of atonal chamber works by France's Parrenin Quartet, an opera by Germany's Werner Egk. The tone of the festival reflected Tito's promise of a free hand, but Chief Organizer Milko Keleman, 37, an instructor in composition at Zagreb Conservatory, was understandably anxious when Cultural Relations Commissar Drago Vucinic showed up for a concert of electronic works...
...notice served by Harvard students upon Time magazine to the effect that its story of a national conservative renaissance stands impeached as witness the fact that Harvard students did not vote Phillips into power because he is a conservative, reminds one of the celebrated wire by the Chamber of Commerce of Italy, Texas, to the League of Nations in October 1935, stating that it should be made absolutely clear to the nations of the world that it was not Italy, Texas that was invading Ethiopia...
Difficult though it may be, the quartet that the long-suffering Ojai (Calif.) Festival audience heard last week has proved to be one of the most successful of modernist chamber works. At last week's UNESCO-sponsored International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, it was voted the outstanding musical work of the season. Winner of Pulitzer Prize and of the 1961 New York Music Critics Circle award, it has been recorded (by RCA Victor) and in the single year since its premiere, it has been played at most of the major European festivals. In various program notes around...
...Duvalier called the citizens of his impoverished Negro nation to the polls, ostensibly to choose a new Parliament. Duvalier, like all strongmen, thought Parliament talkative, unfriendly and obstructionist (he eviled five members, jailed five others). Then he dissolved both houses and decreed the election of a single, 58-seat chamber. The only candidates who managed to get on the ballots were well-known Duvalier partisans. Only one candidate came out swinging against the regime, and he withdrew for "personal reasons" on election eve. Voting-day squads of police spread a dragnet for anti-Duvalier Haitians, most of whom had prudently...
Along with his fellow astronauts, Shepard submitted on the ground to all the possible privations of space flight. He walked on endless treadmills, sat with his feet in ice water, endured two hours in a room heated to 130°F. and three hours in a soundproof, totally dark chamber. He took countless psychological tests. His torso was tattooed to mark the spots where electrodes would be attached for medical measurement...