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...standards, even Stravinsky and Bartok are somewhat old hat. "The tradition that I am upholding is the tradition of the continuance of music," he says. He has introduced new works by Milton Babbitt and Krzysztof Penderecki to the U.S., revived neglected ones by Charles Ives and Ferruccio Busoni. Zukofsky's 1968 recording of Roger Sessions' Violin Concerto proved that the music was not only playable, which many a violinist had denied, but that it was perhaps the finest concerto for the instrument ever produced by an American composer...
...last war ends, we are shown a livingroom where four women of varying ages have lived through the surrounding hostilities. Their lives are empty except for that of the ten-year-old girl (Kate Soloman) who--in a single half hour--alludes to Homer, the Bible, Milton, James Joyce, and Lewis Carroll. The play smacks too much of a kind of self-indulgence that the author, David Richman, should avoid in the future. The bits of naturalistic dialogue that he does include are biting enough to be further developed in his next...
...desires for new musical vocabularies. The result has been that the schism between composer and listener, which is an unmistakable sign of health, has become so broad that orchestras will not play new works. Even when they do, as in the cases of Elliott Carter's Piano Concerto or Milton Babbitt's Relata II, they cause outbreaks of hysterical recrimination, especially in those citadels of analytical dross, The New York Times and The New Yorker. The modern composer faces an audience whose taste is a brew of remembrance and indigestion, appealing for Beethoven, Tchaikowsky, and Verdi and refusing to acknowledge...
...wonder how many of your readers, and how many members of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, ever heard of John Harvard's contemporary John Milton, who said: "I call therefore a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices both private and public, of peace and war." George K. Gaucher...
...cockpit of his F-4 Phantom, Lieut. Commander Ronald Foster, 33, of Milton-Freewater, Ore., was checking out instruments. He heard a blast and "saw an orange fireball coming across the deck. Bodies were coming out of the fireball." Another explosion knocked the canopy off his plane. Then, "like a hand picking me up and lifting me out, another blast blew me out of the plane." Others were not so fortunate: four men in a latrine just under the flight deck were killed outright, one impaled by a jagged water pipe...