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...Impresario, "occasionally loses skirmishes, but it invariably wins the battle for survival." On the theory that some of the most interesting battles are taking place in that realm known as regional opera, TIME'S music critic William Bender visited St. Paul, Katonah, N. Y., and Ottawa. He encountered imaginative programming, talented young singers, skilled managerial talent and audiences as eager for the untried as the familiar. His report...
NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE, in its fifth year at Ottawa, is a working, growing symbol of Canada's cultural life. Its main hall has but 2,100 seats and, like the European auditoriums that served as its model, it is an ultimate and easeful place to hear opera. Its backstage plant is the best in Canada-almost as big as the Metropolitan Opera's. Best of all, there is Conductor Mario Bernardi, who since 1971 has presided over one of the first-rank summer opera festivals on the continent. He began the current season with a new production...
...Brussels session. The U.S. got a public show of Atlantic unity before Moscow, and the allies got both a continued commitment that U.S. troops would stay in Europe and a promise of closer consultation. All this had been worked out the previous week at the NATO meeting in Ottawa. This week, at the conclusion of the Moscow summit, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger will go to Brussels, Paris and Rome to tell the Europeans what happened in Moscow...
...Willy Brandt expanded it with his Ostpolitik in 1969, but it is the Europeans, ironically, together with the Chinese and the Japanese, who have the greatest distrust of U.S.-Soviet détente. NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns, the distinguished, strongly anti-Communist Dutch diplomat, warned at the Ottawa meeting that the U.S.S.R. considers détente a "oneway process serving the exclusive interests of the Soviet Union." One school of Kremlinologists, centered chiefly in Britain and including such men as Robert Conquest and Leopold Labedz, label détente "the American failure." They see American losses in everything from...
...away from Europe to Asia. It can also be partly traced to the obstructionism of France and Charles de Gaulle's decision to kick NATO troops off French soil in the mid-'60s. But NATO is far from moribund. Coming after the squabbling within the alliance last winter, the Ottawa meeting offered reassuring evidence of that fact. The meeting changed nothing except the atmosphere, but that in itself is of some importance. The new French government of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing seems much more committed to the alliance than its Gaullist predecessors, and Washington too seems more relaxed...