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...April), he wrote Concerto Grosso No. 2 for Strings and String Quartet (August) a Sinfonia Breve (December) and a brief In Memoriam (also December). At week's end, with an energy that Churchill might applaud, he was off to Rome to hear a revival of his 1910 opera, Macbeth...
Jones--a designer, producer, and director--is, according to MacLeish, "one of the foremost scenic designers in the country." He has done the designing for Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," Eugene O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh," and Alban Berg's opera, "Wozzeck." He has also done "Oedipus Rex," "Macbeth," and "Richard III." Jones began work in designing for color films as early...
...they had run the station without help. Now there is a staff of six. Like Manhattan's cultural (and partly audience-sponsored) WABF, the Jacobs station is unabashedly highbrow: Debussy's St. Sebastien, Hindemith's Herodiade, the BBC recordings of The Canterbury Tales; Verdi's Macbeth. All works are played in their entirety and without interruption for commercials or station breaks. No work is repeated within three months...
...world's most unusual university also emphasizes such activities as music, art and the theater. "Art without Bohemianism" is a Bob Jones slogan. Last year the university marketed a 100-minute film version of Macbeth in full color, with Bob Jr., as usual, in the title role. Before the action, the star explains to the audience Shakespeare's "gospel message," i.e., Macbeth came to grief because "he did not know and love Christ...
Died. Canada Lee, 45, top-ranking Negro actor of screen (Cry, the Beloved Country) and stage (Native Son), who was a jockey, prizefighter and leader of an unsuccessful jazz band before he got his start in the theater in 1934 as Banquo in the WPA all-Negro production of Macbeth; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...