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Critics & Omelets. He is fussy about the way his music is played, too. Stravinsky annotates his scores with such precise directions that he feels there is no excuse for conductors to "interpret" him: "I am not literature. I don't have to be interpreted...
...Hale telescope,* with its range of a billion lightyears, could do much more than magnify nearby planets. The important work will be done with photographic negatives, some of them showing only faint lines or smudges. The astronomers will study them with microscopes, and interpret them in terms of atomic physics, relativity and quantum mechanics...
...improving. CBS in particular has hired commentators and camera directors with some knowledge of the game. A television announcer has to be more of an expert than his opposite number on radio: there is no point in describing what the audience can see for itself; the announcer has to interpret for the ignorant without annoying the informed...
...this day Toscanini thinks of Verdi with the same mixture of fear, awe, love and respect with which his own musicians now regard him. From Verdi, he got most of his ideas and ideals of conducting. Verdi, like most composers, was outspoken against conductors who felt they had to "interpret" (i.e., change) his music. Said he: "My manuscripts are clear enough, but I have practically never heard my works interpreted as I imagined them...
Behind State's decision was a fear that many Europeans, unfamiliar with U.S. politics, might interpret Congressman Isacson's presence in Paris as official congressional and administrative blessing upon conference doings. Communists undoubtedly would do their best to give Isacson's visit that appearance. Editorialized the New York Times: "No citizen is entitled to go abroad to oppose the policies and interests of his country. . .. The State Department acted wisely...