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...Mind Music." Stravinsky used only five instruments-two flutes, an oboe, English horn and cello. A chorus of eight women and two soloists. Mezzo-Soprano Marni Nixon and Tenor Hughes Cuenod, were the only voices. Stravinsky conducted in his usual jerky, graceless style, looking, with his prominent eyes and waving tailcoat, rather like a dapper little Beatrix Potter frog...
...student was tossed five times by a becerra (yearling cow). Another lost his pants when a horn severed his waistband; a third became so excited that he threw away his sword and tried to throw his becerra to the ground. The crowd got into the act; howling volunteers from the stands jumped into the ring, flinging capes on the sand. But after the wild melee, one old aficionado said: "This was a big day. It took an American to bring back Alcalá's enthusiasm...
...program opened with Beethoven's Quartet in E flat. Originally composed for piano, bassoon, oboc, clarinet, and French horn, the work in its recast piano quartet form still shows signs of woodwind writing. Nevertheless, it is a sprightly, tuneful piece with more than a few melodic and harmonic surprises worthy of the later Beethoven. The performance was fresh, idiomatic and perfect in every way. Balsam's personality seemed to be the dominating one. The group followed his beat, not Gorodzky's, and the piano part was emphasized whenever possible...
...Moneda, the presidential palace, to watch open-air performances by some 1,200 actors, dancers and musicians on seven different stages. Noisily, they cheered the general in his sky-blue uniform, the parading troops, the flat-hatted cowboy who galloped up to the general and handed him a horn filled with red Chilean wine. Some of their loudest cheers were for Eleanor Roosevelt,* head of the U.S. delegation to the inauguration...
...Dali believes that the two deepest preoccupations of mid-century are religious mysticism and atomic physics. His picture combines the two: the Roman Catholic dogma of the Virgin Mary's bodily assumption to Heaven as seen by an age newly aware of nuclear physics. But why the rhinoceros horns? Most important, says Catholic Dali. "The rhinoceros horn embodies a mystic feeling similar to that of bullfighting. The bull is a Spanish god who sacrifices himself. Bullfighters are his priests. " Says Dali, who plans to show his Madonna in Manhattan this Christmas season: "I have reached the maximum of expression...