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There are comic scenes that approach the .best in Sean O'Casey, as when a shrewd old lag with a game leg solicits a massage from a warder in order to get drunk on rubbing alcohol. "Which leg is it?" asks the warder. "To be on the safe side...
Saved from Grubbing. Paul Fromm's reward for his good works is the knowledge that he has saved many a first-rate composer from moneygrubbing. (On the theory that too much money can be as destructive as too little, he has also vowed never to expose his daughter to...
Old Vienna never cares much for premières of new music. The new composition on the Vienna Symphony concert program one night last week was included not as a première, but as a novelty. It was Piano Concerto No. 1 by Los Angeles' young (32) Benjamin...
A round-faced young man with a crew cut and a muscular build, Lees was born (1924) of Russian parents in Harbin, China. The family moved to San Francisco the next year, bought the boy a piano when he was seven. Lees studied music for two years at U.S.C., then...
Ben Lees finished his studies two years ago, by now is far better established than most colleagues of his age. His works have been performed in six countries; his String Quartet No. 1 has been played by several ensembles, including the Budapest Quartet; his Profile for Orchestra has been broadcast...