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In Le Marteau one recognizes Boulez' individuality; it is far from being merely French Webern played at high speed. Many listeners will be charmed by the piece--few will be charmed by Zeitmasse ("Tempo"), for woodwind quintet (with English horn substituted for horn). Where Boulez is witty and Gallic, Stockhausen...

Author: By Orpheus J. G., | Title: Two Modern Works | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

In addition to public munificence, Colonel Baker carries on quiet good works; e.g., when he hears of deserving citizens whose taxes are in arrears he wipes out their delinquency. Between times, the fragile (135 Ibs.) philanthropist holds court in the coffee shop of the Baker Hotel, where he has lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ILLINOIS: St. Charles & the Angel | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Aristotle wrote in his Poetics that the ideal drama should be grounded on a plot so firm that, "even without seeing the things take place, he who simply hears the account of them shall be filled with horror and pity at the incidents; which is just the effect that the...

Author: By John E. Mcnees, | Title: Oedipus Rex | 11/4/1958 | See Source »

Whatever the campaign's effect on Chicago schoolchildren (about 300 a day wrote in for a chance at $10 daily prizes and a $100 grand prize), it should draw from their parents large quantities of good will for WIND. Last week, while patting his station warmly on the back...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Try School Today | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

Because only about half of Columbia is numbed by the drumming, a furious row commences. The city's ladies fume about Miss Mizzou's putative lack of underclothes, while the C. of C. retorts that nothing has ever been proved in that respect. To critics who question the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Drums in Old Mizzou | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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