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...qualification to the inaugural speech just delivered by a President of the opposite political faith. Humphrey was not alone in his estimation of Dwight Eisenhower's speech (TIME, Jan. 28); rarely before in U.S. political history had the ideals and ideas of one man struck so responsive a chord among politicians, pundits and just plain people of generally divergent opinions...
...Dodd told fellow delegates to the National Piano Tuners' convention in Kansas City that rock 'n' roll is raising hob with the nation's keyboards. For the first time in his long professional career, he said, he had seen a piano's thick bass chord snapped by a pianist flailing out a thundering rock-'n'-roll chorus...
...Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive--but this work ought to be heard...
...Mexico City, nearing the end of a 10,000-mile tour through Latin America, Conductor Alexander Hilsberg and the New Orleans Symphony gave a concert at the unmusical hour of 11:15 a.m., but the big (capacity: 3,700) Teatro Metropolitan was nearly full, and by the final chord of Stravinsky's Fire Bird Suite, the crowd was up and whooping an ovation. The only reason the audience let the orchestra quit after three encores was that it was time for the bullfights. The New Orleans musicians had left their musical mark on 22 cities and towns from Lima...
...characterize Eden's deportation of Archbishop Makarios as "muddleheaded," but what was the alternative after Britain's offer of self-government under British security had been rejected? The "self-determination" of the Cypriots strikes a responsive chord in American hearts, but have the consequences of the "down-with-Britain" cry been fully considered? What would have happened to Cyprus in World War II had it been Greek? Even more, what will be its fate in any future Mediterranean struggle without the presence of Her British Majesty's troops...