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...genuine and belongs to the myth of the Argonauts. In his well-known The Greek Myths, Robert Graves writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept, she removed the bronze nail which stoppered the single vein running from his neck to his ankles. Out rushed the divine ichor, a colorless liquid serving him for blood, and he died...
...weekend of musical homage that amounted to a Milhaud retrospective (with performances of his Caramel Mou: Shimmy for Jazz Band and Singer, a string quartet, a ballet, 'Adame Miroir, and his one-act opera Medea), local critics rejoiced in "the new turn" Milhaud's futuristic Suite suggested. But to Milhaud himself the new turn was only a pleasant reminiscence of work he did 40 years ago. "Now that everyone else is doing these things," he said cheerlessly, "they think I am following their steps. That is part of the general misunderstanding a composer faces all his life...
Died. Robinson Jeffers, 75, solitary poet of gloom, whose half-century of tragic, ironic verse won the 1960 Shelley Memorial Award; after a long illness; in Carmel, Calif. Best known for his vividly free adaptation of Euripides' Medea, he judged civilization as "a transient sickness," wrote from the tower of a massive granite house that he built near the rugged Big Sur region of the California coast...
Confounding enemies who gossiped that she had gone into seclusion for a nose bob, volatile Soprano Maria Callas returned to Milan's La Scala five days after undergoing punishing treatment for sinusitis and won 25 rapturous curtain calls in Cherubini's Medea. Warbled Callas. tossing off the hasty comeback as mere noblesse obbligato: "Everyone else can be ill and get sympathy, but I cannot afford to be sick because the press watches my every movement for a chance to get a smack...
...alterations in placement and tone (fortunate for Farrell, since for all her sensitivity to mood she is not far ahead of Tebaldi in acting ability). Although she has the power to sing Wagner, she has stuck largely with an Italian repertory, has made her performance of Cherubini's Medea a stirring modern classic...