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...biggest newspaper in the Middle East is Cairo's Al Misri (The Egyptian). Taken over in 1936 by Publisher Mahmoud Aboul Fath for a few thousand dollars, it was quickly converted into the official organ of the nationalistic Wafd Party; circulation rose to 100,000 and Al Misri became a financial success as well as a powerful political force. But Publisher Fath was more interested in business than in newspapering. In Cairo, his younger brother Hussein Aboul Fath has been running Al Misri and the family's chain of other newspapers and magazines, while Owner Mahmoud lived...
Hector Berlioz once remarked that the orchestra may be the king of music, but that the organ is the pope. In the past 200 years, since the death of Bach (1685-1750), the king has reigned supreme. During the whole romantic and impressionist era, only a handful of composers bothered to write for the organ, and what they wrote was largely insignificant. But in recent decades, the pope of the musical world has begun a major comeback. Modern U.S. composers * Walter Piston, Roger Sessions, Quincy Porter, Leo Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found...
...Fashion. It is just possible that E. Power Biggs ("Biggsie" to his friends) has never even heard of Liberace. Born in Westcliff, near London (he is now a U.S. citizen), Biggs studied engineering, gave it up to take a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. After teaching organ at the academy, he toured England, then came to the U.S. and became organist of the Boston Symphony...
Something for Everyone. Last week Biggs was back in England. Invited to play at Westminster Abbey, he had only a few hours of rehearsal with the huge organ. Because the Abbey's acoustics are so troublesome that the organist has scarcely any idea what his playing sounds like, Mrs. Biggs was stationed far below in the choir stall as Biggsie tried the stops, calling up to him, "Too squeaky," "Too harsh...
...young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie's classical auster-ty caused some shifting and dozing. And the Sowerby piece, full of modern dissonances, caused some grumbling. But the critics were respectful...