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With his firm jaw and conservative business suits, Robert Oliver, 36, is the picture of a successful executive. And so he is: boss of management development at California's missile-making Hughes-Aircraft Co. But when he talks, his voice is that of someone else: an oldtime Wagnerian "black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso Behind the Desk | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

At Venice's International Festival of contemporary music last year (TIME, Oct. 6), Stravinsky got his wish. The composer's Threni, id est Lamentationes ]eremiae Prophetae (i.e., Threnody, Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah) is a complex, 33-minute work for six vocal soloists, chorus and full orchestra, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso Behind the Desk | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

Master & Peasant. Born and raised on a western Pennsylvania farm, Oliver sang in the choir at Geneva College ('43) and became vaguely aware that he had "some sort of a voice." But aside from a short stay at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music after his World War...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Basso Behind the Desk | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

SEEK THE FAIR LAND, by Walter Mack-en (308 pp.; Macmlllan; $3.95), is a sort of western, too. although it is set in iyth century Ireland. A minority of English settlers were struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed (Historical) Fiction | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

N. Richard Nash, a major Broadway playwright, has fashioned an excellent screenplay, remarkably faithful to DuBose Heyward's libretto. And Oliver Smith has captured the flavor of Catfish Row in an authentic-looking, yet properly stylized set. The color, the lighting, Irene Sharaff's costumes--all beautiful. Andre Previn (winner...

Author: By Harold Scott, | Title: 'Porgy and Bess' Opens at The Astor | 8/6/1959 | See Source »

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