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President Kennedy will still have hefty Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress, plus that skilled legislative maestro, Lyndon Johnson, to help out on Capitol Hill, but Kennedy is likely to find that the old conservative coalition of Republicans and Southern Democrats can muster enough votes to keep him from marching toward the New Frontier very fast-and perhaps that is the way the voters intended...
Kennedy in contrast, for all his magic with crowds and his keen-minded calculations during his run for the nomination, showed himself something of a bumbling battler during the post-convention session. If he had stayed in the background, letting Johnson maestro the show, the results in legislation might have been the same, but Kennedy would not have been politically hurt. As it was, he damaged his image as an efficient and forceful leader by needlessly exposing himself to public defeats, tying his own prestige to getting a doomed package of welfare legislation enacted...
...Maestro, and II Barbiere di Si-viglia, Giovanni Paisiello's rowdy comic version of the famed tonsorial tale, skilled young soloists-their names still little known abroad-testified to Drottningholm's success in developing new operatic singers. Night after night S.R.O. crowds came back for more...
...opera was so old that musicologists are not even sure of its history. The theater was equally ancient. But last week this antique combination made the liveliest show in Sweden. II Maestro di Musica, a broadly farcical opera buffa (a pastiche partly based on a 1737 comic opera by Pietro Auletta), filled the Drottningholm Court Theater, built in 1766 during the reign of Queen Lovisa Ulrika. U.S. and European visitors to Stockholm's talent-packed summer music festival learned at first hand why the Swedes are making a new mark for themselves in opera as they already have...
Training for Tomorrow. The setting alone is enough to provide an 18th century atmosphere. But Director Hillestrom goes further. Pages call the audience to attention with handbells, and all performers dress in genuine period costumes. Leading Drottningholm's orchestra with crackling vitality in last week's II Maestro and II Barbiere, Conductor Bertil Bokstedt was resplendent in the silk robe of an 18th century courtier. Onstage, Sweden's gifted young singers-Soprano Karin Langebo, Tenors Carl-Axel Hallgren, Arne Ohlson, Uno Stjernquist, and Basso Arne Tyren-wore the periwigs fashionable at the time of Queen Lovisa...