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...billion stamps will leave their glue on American tongues in 1962. They will be issued under about 300 different names, but 90% of them will come from one of the eight big stamp companies: S & H Green Stamps, Top Value, Plaid Stamps, Gold Bond, Frontier, Blue Chip, King Korn, Triple S. The goods for which they were redeemed in 1961 amounted to approximately $800 million worth (at list prices), and included 14% of the heating pads, 8% of the toasters and 4% of the coffeemakers sold in the U.S. Stamps may be issued along with any transaction-buying a toothbrush...
...says Composer William Sydeman, "the stuff has just exploded." The stuff is Composer Sydeman's music, and it has indeed been exploding in the ears of modern music buffs-15 Sydeman premieres in the past two years. Last week Manhattan's Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn, gave the premiere performance of Sydeman's 14-minute Orchestral Abstractions -the first of five new Sydeman works to be played in January alone...
...year-old Orchestra of America, under Conductor Richard Korn at Carnegie Hall, presented a program of the kind of music it was founded to perform-little-known works by American composers. John Knowles Paine's Overture to "As You Like It" and Howard Hanson's Lux Aeterna proved merely to be pleasantly melodic, soundly constructed works with undistinguished profiles. Leon Kirchner's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra belonged to the crash-bang-and-meander school of modernism, with the violins chasing random single notes in sequence while the cello stuttered insistently, as if trying to interrupt...
...Marimba. Composer Kurka, Chicago-born son of Czech parents, went to work on his 22-minute concerto in 1956 at the suggestion of Marimbist Vida Chenoweth. completed the piece a year before his death of leukemia in 1957 at 35. Last week's performance, conducted by Richard Korn, featured Marimbist Chenoweth as soloist. A small woman (5 ft. 2 in.), she seemed dwarfed by her instrument-a 6-ft. tablelike frame supporting a graduated series of hardwood strips with a row of tubular resonators attached. But when she started to flail away with both wool and rubber-tipped mallets...
According to another of the members, Guy Quinlan '60, Smith promised him that he would not oppose the charter if the club supported him for election last spring. Quinlan also said that Smith reconfirmed the pledge to Morton Korn '57, the Eisenhower Club's president...