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There remains the Lillie. In the circumstances, it is clearly no accident that she is at her best when she speaks not a word; for lamentable are many of the words she has to speak, or-worse yet-to trill. Indeed, that chill stare of hers, suggesting an insulted mermaid...
¶ A 45-minute operatic treatment of Honoré de Balzac's spine-tingler La Grande Bretêche, with music by California-born Stanley Hollingsworth, 32, pupil and protégé of Gian Carlo Menotti. Commissioned by the NBC Opera Company, Bretêche closely follows the...
¶ A 20-minute symphonic poem by Chicago-born Pulitzer Prizewinning Composer Ernst Bacon, 58, with narration based on Paul Horgan's Pulitzer Prizewinning book Great River: The Rio Grande. Commissioned two years ago by the Dallas Symphony and performed under Walter Hendl, Rio Grande proved to be a...
NBC Opera (Sun. 3 p.m., NBC). Premiere of La Grande Bretèche, an opera composed for NBC by Stanley Hollingsworth from a Balzac story (color).
Other railroaders are learning to put the miracles of modern science to use-and are developing new ones on their own. Just as roads have switched over 90% from steam to diesel power, so they are now looking for ways to improve on the economical diesel itself. The Union Pacific...