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...faculty first passed motions to allow the CUI's two graduate and one undergraduate members to sit in on the meeting and to defer any binding action on Soc Rel 148-9 until next week...
Alex A. Inkeles, professor of Sociology, first presented the proposal to the Soc Rel Committee on Undergraduate Instruction (CUI) on Saturday. The idea of setting down general guide lines was considered as one of three approaches the CUI could take in working out a final motion for the regular faculty meeting next Tuesday, Franklin Sampson, CUI chairman and lecturer in Social Relations, said yesterday...
...Vatican Council resumes deliberations. Three papal encyclicals are issued: Cui Bono? (on industrialization in underdeveloped countries); Sic Semper Tyrannis (on Castro's hiccoughs); and Atinlay Oseslay (on the use of the vernacular in the Mass). The New York Yankees, having won the World Series, become a public corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange...
Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 1 (Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Kurt Sanderling; Artia). When it received its premiere in 1897 in St. Petersburg, the First Symphony was so violently unpopular that Composer-Critic César Cui nominated it for first prize at "a Conservatory in Hell." Rediscovered in 1945, it proves no more shocking to modern ears than Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea. A romantic but vigorous work, it gives little hint of Rachmaninoff's later rhapsodies. The Leningrad Philharmonic is properly muscular...
French Horn Masterpieces, Vol. II (James Stagliano; Paul Ulanowsky, piano; Boston). An ear-opener for listeners to whom the French horn is little more than an operatic halloo. The composers are Russian and French, most of them dyed-in-the-brass romantics: Gliere, Cui, Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Scriabin, Dukas, Faure. The most interesting work is Francis Poulenc's sparsely angular, twelve-tone Elegie written in tribute to Britain's late, great hornist, Dennis Brain. The Boston Symphony's Stagliano summons a rich, clear and remarkably controlled sound...