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...this fall, the horns will sound the spaces between the theatre's showings of Hiroshima Mon Amour, Black Orpheus, and even Can-Can. Variety is required: for the first of these three, Norman Dello Joio's Air Power Suite would no doubt suffice; a few bar's of Gluck might enliven the second; and Offenbach is the only answer for the third. Certainly other suggestions are possible, but continuing the present entr' acte offerings is worse than playing Frescobaldi at a Yovicsin press conference...
...Discounters, I wish to emphasize, are no longer mere order takers. They are becoming skilled merchandisers. They will rapidly expand and force conventional retailers to adopt their techniques." So saying, Maxwell Henry Gluck, 61, announced that his 279-link Grayson-Robinson apparel and camera-supply chain (expected 1961 sales: more than $75 million) will open 25 new discount outlets, from Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum presents in its garden daily recorded music concerts, 1-2 p.m. Next week: Gluck's Orfeo, Milhaud's Sketches for Woodwinds (after Wateau), Duke's Surrealist Suite, MacDowell's Woodland Sketches (the last three works are related to art), Mozart's piano Concertos no. 21 and 27, and Rameau's Les indes galantes...
...Metropolitan Opera debut in the title role of Gluck's Alcestis (TIME, Dec. 19), Soprano Eileen Farrell, 40, left her fans cheering a reputation instead of a performance: the fabled power and warmth were there, but the voice wobbled shrilly in the upper registers. Last week, appearing in some of the Met's fastest company (Mezzo Nell Rankin, Tenor Richard Tucker, Baritone Robert Merrill), Singer Farrell made her second Met start-the title role in Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Blonde-wigged and almost wobble-free, she supplied the spectacular singing her audience had come to hear...
...Farrell's breezy modernity, Alcestis was still hopelessly dated, notwithstanding Gluck's prediction that "time does not exist for it, because the piece is founded upon nature and has nothing to do with fashion." Written in 1767, it retells the legend of King Admetus, who is condemned to death by the gods, and of his wife Alcestis, who offers herself as a sacrifice instead. In the end, touched by their mutual devotion, Apollo reprieves them both...