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Leon Volkov, a former colonel in the Soviet air force, Marek St. Korowicz, former Polish delegate to the United Nations, Leslie Tater, Hungarian television writer, and Stoyan Gavritovitch, former Yugoslav undersecretary of state, will also be on the program...
...Communist countries, home truths are best disguised as fiction. The following remarkable fable, written by Czech Author Jiri Marek, appeared recently in the Prague Communist weekly Literarni Noviny...
...series is the latest foray in a campaign by Victor's Artists and Repertory Director George R. (for Richard) Marek. His plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...
...Vienna-born Director Marek (a lifelong opera lover and author of a Puccini biography) has an answer. He thinks Americans are frightened by serious music, and he wants to "unscare" them. His reasoning: if he turns enough honest dollars on things like Classical Music for People Who Hate Classical Music and Opera Without Singing, he can afford to risk a few on more esoteric items. His own pet recording project: the huge (oversize symphony, chorus, soloists, four brass choirs) and presumably profitless Requiem by Berlioz. This way, he believes, everybody wins...
...Marek Korowicz, a bachelor with no close relatives in Poland, had spent the last seven years quietly teaching his law classes at Cracow. Although he never joined the Communist Party, he kept his opposition to himself and did not give the regime any trouble. Early this month, he was unexpectedly summoned to the Foreign Ministry, told that he would go to New York as legal adviser and first alternate to the delegation. He decided then to escape, but he waited until he had been formally seated as a member of the delegation before making his break...