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Green for "Go." From the start, however, miscalculation by the program's planners set back the whole campaign. Indian experts now laugh at the Nehru government's drive to control births through the rhythm method. Even then it was known that peasant women, because of their exhausting chores and lack of nourishment, usually have irregular menstrual cycles. Moreover, the colored beads that the government distributed to the peasants for keeping track of the days-green for "go" and red for "stop"-failed for the astonishing reason that many women never looked at them until the lights were...
Died. Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, 65, Polish patriot, wartime head of the Polish exile government who returned home in 1945, joined a coalition regime (as Vice Premier) with the Communists in hopes of moderating Red influence, saw rigged elections wipe out his Peasant Party before threats to his life forced him into exile once more in 1947, this time in the U.S., where he spent his years lecturing and writing; of a stroke; in Chevy Chase...
Andy Lee's "Bach and the Beatles" is a world premiere, of sorts -- its pieces have been performed, but never before staged. "Staging" Bach cantatas and Beatle hits is not as easy as it sounds. It means keeping two dozen bodies onstage through the plotless wanderings of the Peasant Cantata looking as if they belong there, and it means dramatizing John Lennon's wonderful language without distorting it beyond recognition. And -- considering that he snuck this ambitious premiere into a House dining room -- director Ken McBain has managed something of a coup...
Bach comes first and sets the stage; the singers keep the same costumes for the Beatle cantatas, which only heightens the feeling that parts of the program's halves are completely interchangeable. The Peasant Cantata's chorus -- which actually does not sing at all -- is well handled as a pantomiming backdrop to the two singers. The drinking scenes are especially colorful...
Baritone Tom Weber, who looks more like a burgher-meister than a peasant, sings freely and clearly although without much range of emotion. Spring Fairbank sings the soprano in both cantatas smoothly and precisely. She is especially fine in the Coffee Cantata, which has a real plot, and a ridiculous one at that; Miss Fairbank milks almost as many laughs from her coffee aria as Richard Fermin does later from the Beatles. James Jones as Schlendrian has a wonderful voice, but his over-acting was almost painful by the time the cantata ended...