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...idiom is music's only salvation, according to Prophet Hodeir, but of all twelve-toners, perhaps only Jean Barraqué measures up to Critic Hodeir's ideal: "A world of utter strangeness." In Hodeir's view, Barraqué's Séquence for soprano and chamber orchestra is one of the "rare works in the history of music," and "the greatest piece of music written in Europe since Debussy's last period." Barraqué's unfinished La Mart de Virgile, to which he expects to devote the rest of his life, is more "monumental...
British Composer Sir William Walton, 58, is an orderly man who prefers to leave no compositional form neglected. Accordingly, he has written at least "one of everything" during his career: a symphony, an opera (Troilus and Cressida), concertos for solo instruments, chamber works. Having covered the circuit once, he is now making the rounds again: last week Sir William was in Manhattan to hear the visiting Cleveland Orchestra give the New York premiere of his Symphony...
...contact with sympathetic people. He realizes that he can not reject his people or his faith, "that the Jewish heart must break a thousand times for the greater good of all peoples. That is why we were chosen." And he voluntarily marches off to his death in the gas chamber...
...Harvey has attempted another wistfully whimsical frolic, some further genially wacky escapism. But she has not pulled another rabbit out of her hat or even put enough bees in Tallulah's bonnet. Her sort of nursery-rhyme old crone scampering upstairs, downstairs and in my lady's chamber has in places a nursery-rhyme lilt, but far too often a thin, struggling farce's laboredness. The kinfolk and clubwomen who keep trooping in and out make the struggle even harder. The play has charming moments, but only moments; flashes of bright Harveyesque humor, but only flashes...
...effects of the 1956 increase, reported that only 62,000 workers in 15 low-wage industries had been laid off in the first impact of the $1 minimum-wage hike. The strongest arguments against a boost were made by the director of economic research of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Emerson Schmidt. But a survey he introduced to support his position granted that "in a majority of instances, the $1 minimum wage appeared to have little significant influence on unemployment, either in the short run or the longer...