Word: crescendo
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...health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which he himself inaugurated and directs, and Bath in England...
...been unhappy and uncooperative. Latest dissident is one of Khanh's three Vice Premiers, Nguyen Ton Hoan. leader of the nationalist Dai Viet party, who recently complained of "too much interference from Khanh and those around him." As last week began, the coup rumors grew to a new crescendo. But with the U.S. blow at North Viet Nam the reports faded, and Khanh appeared at least momentarily bolstered...
Elliot Forbes had obviously worked hard on dynamics for all the works on the program. In "Deutsches Magnificat," by Heinrich Schutz, he established a different mood for each phrase, and built up a gradual, carefully controlled crescendo for the piece's final cadence. Forbes made Hans Hassler's distressful, chromatic motet very convincing with sudden pianissimo phrases; the words were never blurred when the chorus sang softly...
...France's state broadcasting monopoly, Radiodiffusion, Television Franchise, the film wound up on the cutting-room floor. R.T.F.'s producers, who scissored it out of a prepared news program, explained: "The presidential campaign is not yet open." The episodes underscored an issue that is producing a crescendo of static in non-Gaullist ranks, and even among some conscience-stricken Gaullists them selves-De Gaulle's blithe appropriation of France's radio and TV grid for his own political uses. When De Gaulle speaks, his words are broadcast repeatedly; but Defferre, since announcing his candidacy in December...
Thus an understandable crescendo of excitement followed the announcement a few months ago that Miller had readied a new play, After the Fall, which would moreover be the inaugural vehicle of the Lincoln Center repertory company. Thursday the work had its formal opening--which was a crucial test for Miller, a milestone for the Center, and an all-important event for the American theatre in general. After the Fall clearly puts Miller on the vacant throne; he is the most serious artist that native playwriting has seen since O'Neill...