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On the last lap of a strenuous 17-nation serenade through Asia, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber put into Hong Kong, allowed: "You can now call me a primitive donna!" In her travels about the Orient, West Virginia-born Singer Steber, 40, a recent divorceée, had also observed...
BEFORE World War II, abstract art was dominated by the geometrical and almost architectural paintings that grew out of cubism and culminated in Piet Mondrian's austere compositions in primary red, white and blue. But in the past decade has come a new experiment with intense, expressive forms that...
Some of Diamond's colleagues also heard from last week: ¶J Alan Hovhaness' Easter Cantata got its first New York concert performance by the National Orchestral Association under Guest Conductor Newell Jenkins. Mystically described by Armenian-descended Composer Hovhaness ("The vocal element ... is the sun; the other...
Clad in high-collared vests and baggy cotton trousers, the three barefoot Indian musicians sat down cross-legged on an Oriental carpet on the stage of Judson Memorial Hall at Manhattan's Washington Square. Glancing at the drummer to the right of him, Ravi Shankar cradled his sitar in...
There are other top couturiers, each with his champions. There is young (30) Marquis Hubert Taffin de Givenchy, a gangling giant (6 ft. 7 in.) with a title more than four centuries old, whose gambit is daring colors and bizarre fabrics. In the Rue Cambon, Coco Chanel has staged a...