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...Le Marteau created a mild sensation at its first performance three years ago. After an interval in which Webern's fame has grown tremendously, Boulez' piece has become more accessible, although it remains a rather tough puzzle. Certainly it has far more surface attraction than the Stockhausen recorded here: Boulez call for alto flute, xylorymba, vibraphone, guitar, viola, and several exotic percussion instruments. Four of the nine sections are settings of surrealistic poetry by Rene Char; the contralto Margery MacKay displays here an engagingly warm and sensuous voice. Practically all of the music moves at a furious tempo; this speed...
...Le Marteau one recognizes Boulez' individuality; it is far from being merely French Webern played at high speed. Many listeners will be charmed by the piece--few will be charmed by Zeitmasse ("Tempo"), for woodwind quintet (with English horn substituted for horn). Where Boulez is witty and Gallic, Stockhausen is ponderous and Teutonic. The piece is based on an exceedingly complicated schedule of ratios, educations, and formula borrowed from the forbidding world of electronic music. What the uninitiated listener hears is a strange web of sound, frequently frightening and dense as all five instruments sweep from one extreme of their...
...Among the newspapers recently confiscated in Algeria was Le Monde of Paris. Le Monde's of fense: reprinting TIME'S Oct. 13 interview with Algerian Rebel Leader Ferhat Abbas...
Lorenzaccio (by Alfred de Musset) launched a three-week visit of France's Theatre National Populaire-a people's theater which under the adventurous leadership of Jean Vilar has become popular indeed. Though French dramas of greater fame-Moliere's Don Juan, Corneille's Le Cid-were to follow it on Broadway. Musset's 124-year-old romantic tragedy made a booming opening gun. For one thing, despite its many-pronged story and far too many scenes, Lorenzaccio has considerable operatic stir, psychological lure and ironic force; for another, in the economical way that this...
...favorite in this afternoon's contest. Still, the Crimson is physically and psychologically prepared for an allout effort this afternoon; and there are some "hunch-players" in the vicinity who have got that feeling that an upset may be in the making. 3 Probable Starting Lineups DARTMOUTH HARVARD Hibbs LE Keohane Bowlby LT Shaunessy Boye LG Keating Colehower C Foster Krutsch RG Anderson Horschman RT Briggs Palmer RE Hershon Gundy QB Ravenel Crouthamel LH Boulris Burke RH Lawson Hepburn FB Halaby