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...Harmonies. Where other composers were satisfied with the conventional scale of seven basic tones (do, re, mi, fa, sol, la, ti), Schoenberg insisted on discarding "key" and exploring the potential scale of twelve tones (i.e., the full chromatic scale in an octave). The result hurt people's ears. "Just dissonance," they said, or, more simply, "Just noise." Schoenberg stuck to his guns, demanded the "emancipation of dissonance." Discords can become new harmonies, he said. He found a few disciples. The best known: Alban Berg, composer of the twelve-tone opera Wozzeck (TIME, April 23). New music, Schoenberg insisted, "must...
...guerrilla leaders are known to old China hands of the U.S. Guerrilla chief in Inner Mongolia is General Ou Yu-san, former cavalry commander under ex-Nationalist General Fu Tso-yi, who went over to the Reds. In Yunan, along the Burma border, the guerrilla boss is General Li Mi, who commanded the Nationalist Thirteenth Army Group at the hard-fought battle of Suchow in November...
...illiterate backlands of the small (574 sq. mi.) state of Delhi this winter, UNESCO and the Indian government have been working on a pilot education plan designed to bring literacy and modern farming methods to India's unlettered masses. Auto trailers, loaded with exhibits, stop in every village for a three-day show. The villagers get simple demonstrations of modern methods of poultry-breeding, cattle-raising and plowing. Moreover, though the trailer crews move on, they leave behind in each village a stack of books and a temporary squad of teachers. Aim: nothing less than 100% literacy among Delhi...
Last week Siepi sang his fourth role at the Met: Colline in Puccini's La Boheme. Said Bachelor Siepi, with relief: "Finally I have a chance to play a young man. Mi facio bello! [I shall make myself beautiful]." He played and sang his small role to the hilt, and when it was over he collected the same stout applause he has been getting all season...
...week's end the Atomic Energy Commission cautiously confirmed the fact that the first atomic explosion had taken place in its new 5,000-sq.-mi. testing ground on the remote and barren plateau northwest of Las Vegas known as Frenchman Flat. It was the first atomic explosion in the U.S. since the historic test at Alamogordo in 1945. Most Nevadans, warned earlier in the week by the announcement of a non-nuclear "dry run," took the explosion in stride, though it rattled windows, startled early-rising tourists, and was heard as far as 150 miles away...