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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Marat/Sade is so intrinsically exciting, and TCB's acting so good, that the play is exhaustingly effective. John Coe (Herald), Frank Cassidy (Coulmier) and Bronia Stefan (Marat's mistress Simonne) deserve mention. Roberta Collinge and Josephine Lane highlight the chorus, and the full-throated Katherine Garnett (who drools) very nearly takes the show. Go, if you think you can Brook it. But hope David Wheeler tightens up Act I by tonight, when I'm going again...
...country. He listened to reports on Operation Irving from Air Cav officers in the central swamplands, watched A-4 Skyhawks being catapulted off the deck of the carrier Oriskany, paid brief visits to Danang, Cu Chi and the rapidly building military port of Cam Ranh Bay. But the highlight of his trip was the 3rd Marine Division's forward command post at Dong Ha, where he got an on-the-spot briefing of the northern battle lines. Included in the briefing: a helicopter flight over enemy positions...
...canned homilies and tanned profiles intrude irksomely on program schedules. The biennial profusion of campaign billboards and posters stipples the land that Lady Bird wants to beautify and Lyndon yearns to own. Yet the art of politics is not immutable, and this year's mid-term elections highlight a host of developments that are changing the nature of campaigning...
...Honegger and Webern. The Debussy Sonata in C Minor is competent interpretation, but Szigeti really excels in tenser linear works -the eclectic Ives in his only violin sonata and the neo-Baroque Honegger (Sonata No. 7), with its complex, difficult ornamentation, sound fresh and clear. The record's highlight is four pieces (Opus 7) by Anton Webern, none longer than 72 seconds, in which the stripped-down starkness of modern music and its intolerance of repetition or romance are emphasized by Szigeti's signature: a hard, almost rasping tone that is as uncompromising as the music itself...
...A.S.O. not only succeeded, it took off. What is more, Stoky's striplings are stealing some of the thunder from their big brothers at the New York Philharmonic. The A.S.O.'s world premiere of Charles Ives's fiercely modern Fourth Symphony, for example, was the highlight of the U.S. symphony season last year. In fact, when it comes to championing modern music, Stokowski makes many of the younger conductors look like old fogies. Dissonance for dissonance, the A.S.O. has played a higher proportion of contemporary music than any other major U.S. orchestra...