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...amid six scraggly potted palms in the salon of the Batiment Electoral, where the Swiss hold cantonal elections. On a floor below, the brass band of the Geneva Landwehr could be heard holding its rehearsals. The remarks of Chief U.S. Negotiator Christian A. Herter were punctuated by the faint oom-pah-pahs of the Landwehr as he warned: "The longer we procrastinate in setting the formulas by which these negotiations will proceed, the more we risk the success of the entire negotiations...
Harbison's five-movement work, placed in the middle of the program, vacillated strangely from the dramatically original to the depressingly banal. In the first movement, "Fanfare," for example, an oom-pah-pah calliope followed an exciting, dissonant flourish. But Harbison nicely exploited the resonance of the piano and the technical facility of the flute...
...their more candid moments, the country's ruling Boers admit to a certain uneasiness over their growing isolation from the rest of the continent. In Pretoria, Oom Paul Kruger's old Boer capital, the Minister of External Affairs Eric Louw talks of the eventual need to establish diplomatic relations with 'the independent black nations. "But it will take time to prepare the people," he says. Louw wears a perpetually mournful look...
...even includes the actual dumping of Falstaff into the Thames; and what Falstaff later calls his "kind of alacrity in sinking" is conveyed by a descending tuba scale.) For the concluding dance of ouphes and fairies, Bazelon has composed more droll music--for tambourine and bass drum, with ludicrous oom-pahs in the brass...
...both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped 75 stations with the TV-radio rig, and NBC will try the same gimmick...