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...Studio's polyglot performers turn the dim basement room into a Cellar of Babel. Tennessee banjo pickers and American Negro folk singers take their turns with such musicians as a Sudanese oud player and a Japanese painter who sings improvised melodies to verses from Confucius. One night's program may include everything from a down-home treatment of Ballin' the Jack to a Yugoslavian dirge, and there is even one Italian folk singer whose songs are collected in the best ethnic tradition -from peasants, workmen, and lifers in an open-air prison in Sardinia...
...floor to demonstrate their own amateur graces. Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption. Small, shirt-sleeved orchestras play in 2/4 or 4/4 time, using guitars, violins, and more alien instruments with names that would open Sesame: the oud, grandfather of the lute; the darbuka, a small drum with the treelike shape of a roemer glass; the def, a low-pitched tambourine. The girls sit quietly with the musicians, wearing prim dresses or plain, secretarial shifts, until it is time to go off to a back room and reappear...
...Ambassadress Eugenie Anderson, Danish Foreign Minister Gustav Rasmussen and American Ballad Singer Josh White. Accompanied by son Elliott, she went on to The Netherlands for a little visit with Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in Soestdijk palace. She also drove to her family's ancestral home, Oud-Vossemeer, where the whole town, including 40 local Roosevelts, turned out to cheer her. In Luxembourg, she went to a banquet given for her by Grand Duchess Charlotte, took Madam Minister Perle Mesta out to lay a wreath on the grave of General George Patton. After that, she was off for Paris...
Hovhaness and Cage: Piano Compositions (Maro Ajemian at the piano with Alan Hovhaness assisting at piano, gong and drums; Disc, 4 sides). Hovhaness composes with ancient Armenian instruments (tar, kanoon, oud and saz) in mind, achieves a marimba-like effect on Jie piano which is near-hypnotic in its insistence on repeated notes. Maro Ajemian performs John Cage's Amores, I & IV on a Cage "prepared piano" (TIME, Feb. 22, 1943) which gives off intriguing thwacking sounds, graduated in pitch and timbre. Performance: excellent...
Most U.S. modernists still revere and follow in basic principles the European pioneers of the early '20s-Gropius, Oud, Le Corbusier, Miës van der Rohe. But younger architects no longer make a fetish of pure functionalism (following Le Corbusier's dictum "a house is a machine for living") and the ruthless exclusion of all ornament. While they pay close attention to the purposes of their buildings and are inclined to let structural forms speak for themselves, they are concerned about the grace of their designs. All this can be clearly seen in three of the book...