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...widely divergent contemporary operas were presented this weekend at Harvard and B.U. The first was The Man in The Man-Made Moon, by Joel Mandelbaum '53, given its world premier Saturday night. For the hour-long opera Mandelbaum wrote both the music and the libretto. His work is mostly a spoof on the conventional opera form, although in the course of an hour he also parodies Freud, 12-tone composers, science, and the self-made man. The music enlivened the parody, especially in a romantic mock-Brahmsian chorus to the text "The complete and utter destruction of the universe." Saturday...
...Made Moon," a comic opera in one act by Joel M. Mandelbaum '53, will have its first performance tonight in Paine Hall. Peter G. Neumann '54, Robert A. Cortwright '58, and Peter J. Achinstein '56 head the cast...
...Jerusalem, spiritual capital of three great faiths, hatred is scheduled to take a 52-hour moratorium. As in years past, Moslem and Jew will lay aside their guns so that the Christian world may celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. Early Christmas Eve, at bullet-pitted Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, a joyous and expectant caravan begins to form on the Jewish side. These are 3,000 Christians who live in Israel-most of them Arabs and all but a handful Catholics-cut off all year from their kinfolk by the Arab-Israeli war. They yell greetings to their...
...pilgrims journey to the Grotto where Christ was born, and then off to Christmas dinners with families and friends whom they see only once every year. An official of the Bank Leumi Lisrael at Mandelbaum Gate just this once legally exchanges Jordanian dinars for Israeli lirot. The pilgrim, returning 52 hours later, is allowed to carry into Israel Jordan food, which is ordinarily' confiscated. Then the gate clangs shut, and the passageway once more becomes a barrier...
...Joel Mandelbaum '53 composed the original music score and conducted the student orchestra which provided the musical accompaniment to the movie...