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...great need of America today" said Eugene Foss, former governor of Massachusetts, "Is to have college-bred men with a true sense of public service actively interested in politics." The next day, October 11, Senator Wadsworth of New York told the University that President Harding's regime was doing great things for the country. And a few weeks later, Jean Longuet, grandson of Karl Marx, attached the French government and the Versailles Treaty...
...Foss: The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County (Burton Trimble, tenor; Ruth Biller, soprano; Paul Ukena, bass-baritone, and others; Frederic Kurzweil, pianist; Lyrichord, 2 sides LP). Brilliant young (28) Lukas Foss's adaptation of Mark Twain makes Foss look like one of the brightest hopes of American opera. Well done by the enterprising After Dinner Opera Co. cast which gave the work its Manhattan premiere (TIME, June 19), The Frog even jumps smartly on records. Recording: good...
South Dakota's Senator Francis Case got a request from a constituent. World War II Marine Corps Ace Joseph Jacob Foss, 35, Congressional Medal of Honor winner credited with shooting down 26 enemy planes over Guadalcanal, now lieutenant colonel and commander of South Dakota's Air National Guard, wanted to fight again. It would take a waiver of a rule prohibiting Medal of Honor winners from combat duty. Said the Senator: "Joe said he'd almost be willing to return the medal, if this would enable him to get combat duty...
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, et al. Performance and recording: good...
With The Frog safely on its way (it gets another production at the Berkshire Music Festival next month), young Lukas Foss was already looking for a new libretto, "a longer and more serious one-but that doesn't mean everybody has to die at the end." He would have plenty of time to find one and work on it. He has resigned his post as pianist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra to spend next season in Italy as a winner of the American Academy in Rome's Prix de Rome...