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Stravinsky: Mass (The Netherlands Chamber Choir and wind orchestra conducted by Felix de Nobel; Epic). A superb performance that takes some of the controversy out of this much discussed work. It is so securely played and sung, and so delicately balanced that the music emerges rich and even moving. Stravinsky is also represented by another fine performance, his 1914 opera Le Rossignol with Janine Micheau, and Jean Giraudeau, and forces of Radiodiffusion Française conducted by André Cluytens (Angel). The opening act, written before Stravinsky had emerged from the influence of Debussy, is ecstatic; Soprano Micheau...
...years nuclear physicists have used neutrinos (small, uncharged particles) in their calculations. Neutrinos are necessary: without them many nuclear equations would not balance, and the massive branches of nuclear theory might fall to the ground. But no known apparatus has ever detected neutrinos. They were reasoned into existence by Nobel Prizewinners Enrico Fermi and Wolfgang Pauli to fill a theoretical need, and the gnawing suspicion has long persisted that they do not exist. Last week from the Atomic Energy Commission came big news. Neutrinos do exist...
John F. Enders, Nobel Prizewinning bacteriologist D.Sc...
Peter J. W. Debye, Nobel Prizewinning chemist D.Sc...
...Nobel Prize poet Thomas Stearns Eliot '10 was reported resting comfortably in a London Hospital yesterday, after he had been removed from the liner Queen Mary at Southhampton. Returning from an April lecture at the University of Minnesota and from visits to relatives in Cambridge, he was stricken with a coronary late last week while on the high seas...