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Splitting the Proceeds. Aniline's Swiss owner, a holding company called Inter-handel, will net $121 million from the sale because of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy's controversial decision to settle its ownership claims out of court by splitting the proceeds. The Government's $208 million will go into a war-claims fund to pay U.S. citizens for property and (in some cases) relatives lost during World War II. As for the anxious new investors, they hope to profit by the improvement in General Aniline's prospects already begun under research-minded President Dr. Jesse...
...Christ, Stevens offers easy-to-picture faith healing rather than such tricky feats as loaves and fishes and water-walking. Then he lets his whole drama turn on the raising of Lazarus from the dead, a much-debated episode that he underscores with the Gloria-in-excess of Handel's Messiah. Handel nonetheless seems an improvement over the sepulchral strains of Composer Alfred Newman's background meditations. The Last Supper, prior to the Crucifixion and Resurrection at Jerusalem, ludicrously borrows its table setting from Leonardo da Vinci in order not to disturb the public mind with a single...
...CANTO (2 LPs; London). A festive addition to the current revival of "beautiful singing," these 23 arias, duets and trios are by familiar composers (Bellini, Donizetti, Rossini, Handel) as well as unfamiliar ones (Piccinni, Lampugnani, Bononcini, Shield). Joan Sutherland is the heroine of the album, her brilliant voice describing perfect arabesques in the stratosphere. Richard Conrad's flowing tenor blends beautifully with hers, and there is also ample opportunity to judge the fast-rising Mezzo-Soprano Marilyn Home, whose range, power and flexibility are formidable but who is not yet in the same galaxy as Sutherland...
Vast Confusion. The Handel and Haydn Society was the outgrowth of a chorus assembled in 1815 for a Peace Jubilee celebrating the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, word of which took 52 days to reach Boston. The society grew rapidly, until by the late 1850s it was more than 700 voices strong. Not a historical event passed in old Boston that the society did not commemorate with a concert, featuring such speakers as Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson...
Though the society boasts a repertory of some 100 choral works, many New Englanders know it simply as the "Messiah Society." The complete Messiah, in fact, was given its U.S. premiere (1818) by the society, as were many of the great choral works, including Haydn's Creation (1819), Handel's Solomon (1855) and Mendelssohn's Elijah (1848), a coup that was achieved only after the society's president sought out Mendelssohn in London and convinced him that Boston was culturally ready for the work...