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...simply do not know as much as most of the orchestra. At rehearsal this past Thursday Dr. Y., our conductor, gave suggestions as to pieces for our next concert. At his mention of “The Moldau,” about half of the orchestra groaned, and half sat up eagerly. Bows and hands shot up, voting heartily in one direction or the other as to whether we should add the piece to our program. I abstained. My hand stayed firmly planted at my side, because I honestly don’t know if I’ve ever...
...took off from Munich's Riem Airport in a rented Bell JetRanger helicopter. Avoiding radar detection by sometimes flying as close as 3 ft. to the ground, he crossed the West German border, passed through neutral Austria and at 150 m.p.h. whipped across the Czech frontier near the Moldau reservoir, a sparsely populated wooded vacation area. As before, he was supposed to set down in a meadow, pick up his four passengers-East Germans like all the others-and within seconds be on his way home...
Emptying the Gottwald mausoleum was simple compared with a second task Novotny put before the party: leveling the 6,000-ton marble monument to Stalin, which, on a perch overlooking the city, looms like a ghost ship from the banks of the Moldau River. Unveiled in 1955, after three years of steady chiseling, the 56-ft.-high statue of Stalin stands atop a 40-ft. base, flanked by eight slightly smaller figures representing workers, soldiers, scientists. Instead of bothering to demolish the colossus, people were whispering in Prague cafés last week that Comrade Novotny could simply...
Warsaw is drab and still rubble-strewn, but memorable. The ancient capital of Cracow retains its medieval splendor. So does Prague, with its beautiful setting; on the Moldau, hotels are good (single: $11.75 per day with meals). Bureaucracy controls: the hotel costs must be paid before the tourist can use his visa. A four-day tour of Bohemian spas and castles costs $38.20 with meals...
...York. TIME's story last week of Dr. Gustavus Capito of Charleston, W. Va. is a good example of the kind of coverage TIME's Music department attempts. Dr. Capito used to get a lump in his throat when he listened to Smetana's Moldau. He wondered why some American composer couldn't write as good a piece about the Kanawha, the river that flows through his home town. He offered to pay the conductor-composer of the Charleston Symphony Orchestra $1,000 for the kind of composition he had in mind. A fortnight...