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...Life of President Kennedy, Bishop (3) 4. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (4) 5. My Years with General Motors, Sloan (6) 6. The Green Felt Jungle, Reid and Demaris (9) 7. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (8) 8. The Deputy, Hochhuth 9. The Minister and the Choir Singer, Kunstler 10. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower...
...Harvard University Choir and the Bach Society Orchestra, two of the pockets of high quality performance in Harvard, combined last night for a concert of sacred music in Memorial Church. The quality of the combination was something less than the sum of the quality of the Choir and the BSO, because the two compositions the orchestra played alone hardly matched the two works sung by the choir, Brahms' Fest- und Gedenksprueche, Op. 109 and Mozart's Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento...
While the choir's basses sounded a bit muddy in the Brahms, one could have no complaints about the Mozart. The Litaniae began with the most cheerful imaginable Kyrie eleison and soloists Melanic Adams and Judith Press, who, it is good to note, have moved up successfully from Gilbert and Sullivan to God. The truly fine singing of the evening was done by Florence Staplin, soprano; her certainty of intonation, breath control, phrasing, and tone quality should serve as a model for her fellow soloists...
REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR (RCA Victor) was left unfinished when Mozart died at 35, and Conductor Erich Leinsdorf chose it as a symbolic tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. This superb recording was made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a 180-voice choir and the extraordinary, majestic drawl of Richard Cardinal Gushing, in a solemn pontifical requiem Mass in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Proceeds from the record sale will go to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library fund...
...HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Dean Martin is host to Comics Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, and The Vienna Boys Choir...