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...vocal soloists sang well throughout the Kodaly, but especially in a contrapuntal section which was sung simultaneously to an eerie "quaesumus subveni" chant in the full chorus. Soprano Sandra Jarrett ended the Te Deum with a lyrical solo that went up to a high A. Her tone was so beautiful that it made me shiver...
...South Carolina's Ned Jarrett: the accident-plagued Southern 500 stockcar race, averaging 115.8 m.p.h. in his 1965 Ford despite an overheated engine; at Darlington, S.C. Breakdowns eliminated all the other big-name competitors, and Jarrett coasted home eleven laps ahead of his closest pursuer...
...Leverett House Arts Festival will present Sandra Jarrett '64 in a recital of songs by Beethoven, Faure, Schumann, Copland, and Hindemith at 8:30 p.m. tonight in the Old Library...
...left it at that, his book would be a fascinating fictionalized reminiscence. Unfortunately, he succumbs to the Viennese weakness for whipped cream, mountains of it, wherever possible. After a connubial kiss on page 20-"Bending over and with his hand cupped like a trowel he lifted her chin"-Jarrett's hand more often resembles a shovel. His amatory adventures are mawkish, his professional exploits downright unbelievable: before the book's end he has even manned a machine gun to help fight off the Heimwehr...
Journalist Gunther, who wrote two best-forgotten novels when he was Mason Jarrett's age, has yearned for years to bring off a fictional tour de force. This is not it, though it is sometimes absorbing when it approaches the factual memoir of vintage Vienna that he might have written instead-and still should. As Gunther himself put it some years ago, "How can you write about boy meets girl when you had Hitler and Mussolini next door...