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...EDINBURGH INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 18-Sept. 7) this year explores the compositions of Franz Schubert and Benjamin Britten. A concert version of Schubert's rarely heard opera, Alfonso und Estrella, is scheduled for Sept. 7, following a virtual Who's Who among artists, orchestras and opera companies in a generally classics-oriented program...
...Edinburgh, 15-year-old Alex Smith, Europe's first lung-transplant patient, died last week. Doctors at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary had told the boy's father that the new lung would require at least twelve days to establish itself. Before it could, young Smith's remaining lung, also damaged by swallowed weed killer that prompted the transplant, collapsed...
...famed passages ("A jug of wine, a loaf of bread and thou" became "one mancel loaf, a haunch of mutton and a gourd of wine set for us two alone"), but also for making some scholarly blunders of his own. L. P. Elwell-Sutton, an Orientalist at Edinburgh University, maintained that the manuscript used by Ali-Shah and Graves was "a clumsy forgery." Replied Graves: "Howling nonsense." The quarrel may never be resolved, since Graves's critics have not been permitted to examine Ali-Shah's manuscript. Thus the lay reader can only read Graves's Rubaiyyat...
...transplant are unknown. Only three whole-human -lung transplants are known to have been attempted in medical history, and the longest any of the patients survived was 18 days. Despite the minimal experience and maximal risk, a team of ten doctors and ten assistants made a fourth try at Edinburgh's Royal Infirmary last week. The team was headed by Scotland's Dr. Andrew Logan, a pioneer in heart-valve surgery. The patient: 15-year-old Alex Smith of the Isle of Lewis, one of Britain's Outer Hebrides islands, who accidentally swallowed enough weed killer...
...down, even after Austrian Chancellor Josef Klaus personally urged him to accept. The New York Philharmonic's Leonard Bernstein and Cleveland's George Szell were approached, but said no thanks. The Hamburg Opera's Rolf Liebermann declined an offer, and feelers were rejected by former Edinburgh Festival Director Lord Harewood and the West Berlin Opera's Egon Seetehlner...