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...party, including Peter T. Franck '58, will take a canoe trip this summer on a route in the Canadian Northwest Territories last explored...
...three defensive positions are still undecided, as Munro is searching for men with what he calls "defensive instincts." Hugh Sargent seems to have the edge over George McGarrity at one fullback, while either Eric Franck or Zaid Rifai will play at the other...
...movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (in a ragged performance by the Hallé Orchestra under John Barbirolli) runs a mere three minutes-minus the development section, where, in effect, the composer explains what his music is about. Overall cut: from 32 minutes to 14. Other emasculated masterpieces: Franck's D Minor Symphony (38 to 14), Brahms's First Symphony (38 to 15), Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto...
...Eric Franck of Antwerp, Belgium; James M. Graves of Southport, Conn.; John R. McLane 3d of Manchester, N. H.; Joseph B. Poindexter (Capt.) of Stepney, Conn.; Langdon M. Smith of Winchester, Mass.; James L. Gale (Mgr.) of Concord, Mass...
Bored with popularity polls, the New York Herald Tribune's records editor invited readers to submit lists of the five most boring "acknowledged masterpieces" on records. Readers responded with "enthusiasm and unconcealed joy," reported Editor Herbert Kupferberg. Their "most tedious ten": 1) Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, 2) Franck's Symphony in D Minor, 3) Ravel's Bolero, 4) Wagner's Parsifal, 5) Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, 6) Brahms's Requiem, 7) Dvorak's Symphony No. 5 ("New World"). 8) Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 ("Choral"), 9) Wagner's Tristan...