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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...
Back in his adopted Himalaya skyscrapers for a closer look at the evasive Abominable Snowman, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, co-conqueror of Mount Everest in 1953, decided to extend the expedition. Reason: having earlier discovered some strange pawprints at high altitudes in the snow, Sir Edmund was almost ready to give up the hunt when, according to a letter just received by the expedition's sponsor (Chicago's Field Enterprises Educational Corp.). he happened upon a bearlike skin that his Sherpa guides -who may be con men of the highest-altitude order-swore...
Minus his mountaineering equipment, Britain's Sir John Hunt, leader of the expedition in which Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Guide Tenzing climbed Mount Everest in 1955, popped up at a boys' school in Nottinghamshire, was prepared to answer almost all questions except one: "What did Sir Edmund say after conquering Everest?" Brows knit, Sir John at length blurted: "He said, 'We've knocked the bastard...
String of Trumpets (Billy Mure, his Guitar and Orchestra; Everest). Player Mure has muted his guitar and assembled an impressive crowd of trumpeters-Doc Severinsen, Ernie Royal, Bernie Glow among others. They eloquently blare out big-band and specialty numbers...
Shakespeare's Cleopatra is, as Charmian says, "a lass unparallel'd," but Miss Hepburn's is not, alas, unparallel'd. This Mt. Everest of female roles has foiled many a seasoned Shakespearean within recent memory, including Vivien Leigh. Eugenie Leontovich, Mary Newcombe, Dorothy Green, Katharine Cornell, Janet Achurch, Peggy Ashcroft, and Edith Evans (though the last two came close). The celebrated willing suspension of disbelief does not extend to accepting Miss Hepburn as a sensuous femme fatale who ages from 28 to 38. Only once is she amorously convincing, when she gradually moves in toward Antony ("Eternity...