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...suites for strings and continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part of the work's charm lies...
Last week, before burly guards stifled his anxious cries, the voice of the little man loudly intruded itself upon the august deliberations of the United Nations at Lake Success. Rising to his feet with the shout, "I want freedom too!", 34 year-old Joseph Gamba rushed down from the gallery to upset the table signs of Algeria through Lebanon, even jarring Mexico, before he was dragged off to the ignominy of a mental observation ward...
Interrogation disclosed that the freedom Mr. Gamba was seeking was freedom from his wife, a deliverance that the courts of New York state had denied him for some seven years. Perhaps his case seems small when matched against the problems of Koreans, South African natives and Eastern Europeans. But who is to say that among these less fortunate groups are thousands to whom freedom can only mean what it does to Mr. Gamba? There may well be myriads for whom dissolution of marital bond would mean far more than breaking the shackles of political servitude and economic slavery...
...Gamba's urgent demand dramatizes the need for a Forgotten Freedom Committee. Or, at the very least, it shows the need for a "Secondary Freedom Week" to be observed at the most disagreeable time of the year. And to be chairman of this Week, we think it fitting and proper to nominate Mr. Gamba. If New York continues to deny him his freedom, it is the least Albany...
...participating artists are: Paul Fedorowsky, Descant viol; Albert Bernard, Treble viol and Viola d'amore; Alfred Zighera, Viola da gamba; Gaston Dufresne, Bass viol; and E. Power Biggs, organ...