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...Canada's strong emotional urge to the mother country (which New York Timesman John MacCormac in his recent book on Canada* called "an Oedipus complex" which Canada has never outgrown) is to be found in the series of definitions of Canada's position in the Empire. Beginning with the colonial letters-patent and running past many milestones to the British North America Act (1867) and finally to the Statute of Westminster (1931), the Empire has gradually loosed every hold over Canada - except one. The most recent definition: "The self-governing Dominions are autonomous Communities within the British Empire...
...explain what he calls Canada's "Oedipus complex" toward her mother country, Correspondent MacCormac writes a clearrunning story of the Canadian past which U. S. citizens know so little about (e.g., that in the War of 1812 all the burning was not done by the British; U. S. invaders burned Government buildings at York, now Toronto). Incidentally drawing an entertaining portrait of Canada's vague, unsinkable Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, he shows how Canada's "no commitments" policy between wars weakened British foreign policy at certain crucial moments: the Manchurian and Ethiopian crises particularly...
Thus speaks Igor Strawinsky in his autobiography, about his opera-oratorio, "Oedipus Rex". Even a casual hearing confirms the fact that for his choral idiom Strawinsky has turned back to the principles of the classical style. Present-day choral composers, Vaughan-Williams and Delius among them, have studied how words sound, and in their music have concentrated on the flow and meaning of language. Strawinsky in "Oedipus" uses the choral technique of the eighteenth century masters. Employing the text purely as musical material, he achieves his effects by distorting the words, changing their pronunciation, and shifting accents, without regard...
...Oedipus" was written in 1928, and marks a transition between Strawinsky's youthful and dynamic ballets and his poised contrapuntal modern style. It is primarily a lyrical work, and instead of the complex rhythms and fragmentary motifs of the ballets, has long melodies, with relatively simple rhythmic structures. The three performances of the work this weekend by the Harvard Glee Club and Boston Symphony Orchestra, one at Sanders Theatre tonight, the other two at Symphony Hall Friday and Saturday, will be a rich treat. The fact that it was conceived in purely auditory terms, and not, like the ballets...
...Glee Club this Fall will be the traditional concert with the Yale club the evening before the Yale game. The most ambitious Glee Club performances will be given in the Spring when they sing the annual Sanders Theatre concert and assist the Boston Symphony in Strawinsky's "Oedipus Rex" and Bach's B-minor Mass...