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After months of surrealist palavers, the princes finally met last week in the capital city of Vientiane. But the meeting settled nothing, and more than ever the Three Princes recalled, in their operatic futility, the Three Ministers in Puccini's Turandot -Ping, Pong and Pang...
...distinct types of characters and music in the work: the super-heroes, Calaf and Turandot, who sing extremely high, barbarically exciting melodies; the pathetic educators, Liu and Timur, who are alloted simple, quite moving themes reminiscent of earlier Puccini; the commentators, the chorus and Turandot's amusing Chancellor, Ping, Pang and Pong, whose music abruptly shifts from lyric to comic to barbaric. Calaf and Turandot are conceived as opposing extremes. Calaf, the epitome of virility, is adventurous, aggressive, passionate and egocentric. The princess, frigidity personified, is similarly egocentric, but she is fearful of change, defensive and seemingly devoid of emotion...
Other dissenters have told me that they cannot listen to Turadot because its Chinese elements, especially in the comic trios of Ping, Pang and Pong, sound so silly. But the cheapness of the chancellors' music is often intentionally used as a parodic foil for the genuine ardor of Calaf and most of the other Chinese effects are designed to underscore the various processions in the work. In stage presentation, the pageantry obscures the flaw...
...past ten months, kidnapers have grabbed six millionaires and three wealthy children. One eleven-year-old boy is still missing after seven months, and a merchant named Koh Eng Pang bled to death in the front seat of his car after trying to fight off a kidnaper's ambush. More typical of the pattern was the case of Ong Cheng Siang, the chairman of a bus company, who disappeared last April while on the way home in his Mercedes-Benz. From the kidnapers the family got his car keys and a terse set of instructions. After paying a record...
...Manhattan office, nibbling Muenster cheese to allay an ulcer's pang, 65-year-old Arthur Murray said that he does not think, at present, he will fight the FTC complaint. Said he: "People think the FTC is on their side, and we wouldn't want to turn the people against us." Anyway, he said, taking one step back, he has ordered most of the practices stopped...