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...Henry James' short story Owen Wingrave, he found what he was looking for. On the surface it is a preposterous tale about the scion of a military family who rejects a soldiering career on principle, finds himself rejected by his family, and finally meets a mysterious death in a haunted room. But Owen Wingrave's* opportunities for face-to-face confrontation seemed virtually limitless. Beyond that, it offered themes that have preoccupied Britten in much of his work: innocence betrayed, antimilitarism, the struggle of the individual against the group...
Snares and Trumpets. The result, a two-act, two-hour TV opera, was broadcast jointly last weekend by the BBC and America's NET. As it turned out, Owen Wingrave was something less than Britten's best. Though carefully modulated for the home listener, the vocal writing showed little warmth or melodic appeal. The score, for a busy 46-piece orchestra, with snares and trumpets to underline the military motif and bright, chiming, exotic percussive passages more suggestive of Bali than Victorian England, rarely conveyed resonances of gothic mystery...
...Cooch Owen, the only other senior on the Harvard squad, split his matches in the number-four slot. He beat his Trinity man but lost to M. I. T.'s number-four entry...
John Stoviak had an 82, and Bill Salatich and Cooch Owen had 83's for the Crimson, Skip Barry, top scorer for the Crimson at the Easterns, was bothered by the flu and could only manage...
Other Harvard scores included Skip Kistner, 79; Andy Marks, 81; Cooch Owen, 81; and Fred Sherman...