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...Composer Britten's third opera in as many years had its premiere last week. It was Britten's first try at satirical comedy; his first two operas, Peter Grimes and The Rape of Lucretia (TIME, June 9), were both dark and tragic. For the new opera, Albert Herring, Librettist Eric Crozier did a slapstick adaptation of Guy de Maupassant's cynical Le Rosier de Mme. Husson, in which an innocent village bumpkin goes off on a wild, sinful night after being chosen King of the May. Britten scored it for chamber orchestra in his familiar brittle, witty...
...audience seemed to like Albert Herring, and roared for the composer-conductor. But some critics found loose parts that they had not detected in earlier models. Said the London Times: "Mr. Britten is still pursuing his old problem of seeing how much indigestible material he can dissolve in music." Added another critic: ". . . There are certain pages . . . that seem to betray hasty composition...
...third, Albert Herring, will have its British premiere this month...
...resignations of two other faculty members were also disclosed, Edward P. Herring has resigned as associate professor of Government to devote his full time to work with the Carnegie Corporation, and Clauda M. Simpson, Jr. has resigned as assistant professor of English in order to become professor of English at Ohio State University
...Life. Peggy's year-round citizens make their living from the sea, fishing for lobsters, herring, mackerel, salmon. Each fisherman owns his own home, his boat and fishing gear and most of them have a cow and an ox in the barn, a pig in the shed, a small garden behind the house. Among the rocks back of the Cove are a few grassy plots where cattle and oxen feed and small hay crops are raised. Hay is cut with a scythe, raked by women & children, hauled to the barn by oxen which move at about the same gait...