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...year that Britten produced the War Requiem, which is the capstone of his remarkable career. And since its first performance for the rededication of the Coventry Cathedral, the Requiem has grown in esteem at every hearing, until it is now acclaimed both in Britain and abroad as a modern masterwork. It describes the wide range of Britten's vision and his mastery of the clean, clear voice in which he speaks better than any of his other compositions. With it Britten has emerged as England's greatest composer since Henry Purcell (16597-95) and, among this generation...
Among the supporting players, Louis Nye earns laughs as a bearded, way-out artist with an eye for the fast buck. "My stuff goes for 500 clams, but it's got a 1,000% profit potential," he says. Nye rides around on his latest masterwork aboard a kid's tricycle with a dribbling container of paint suspended over each wheel. Nye tells a visitor: "If you're going to walk on my canvas, the least you can do is put a little crimson on your soles." Pretty funny. But when all's said and done...
...name) as Maimonides. Just published is the 20th century's first complete English version of Maimonides' classic Guide (University of Chicago; $15). Translated by Dr. Shlomo Pines of Jerusalem's Hebrew University, the Guide freshly emerges as a mirror of an age and as the intellectual masterwork of a remarkable...
...greatest living Protestant theologian retired from his professorship at the University of Basel last year, presumably with nothing to do but listen to Mozart records and finish the 13th volume of his masterwork, Church Dogmatics. But at the age of 77, Karl Barth (TIME cover, April 20, 1962) has found himself so busy that he wonders if he will ever finish the book at all. Two evenings a week he holds a trilingual "colloquia" with divinity students in the nearby Bruderholz Restaurant. He keeps up a worldwide correspondence, dutifully reads theses mailed in by budding theologians for his approval...
Caruso's Canio in Pagliacci. But every modern Boris has at least one feather in his cap, and-since Russians still consider Boris their operatic masterwork-most of them come from Moscow. Both Hines and London have sung the role there, and both now claim to be about to make a recording of the opera with the Bolshoi company. Khrushchev himself applauded London, but last week, when Hines sang his Grand Guignol Boris at the Met, Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko came backstage and said, "You are Boris...