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While she taught, Mlle. Boulanger continued to perform and direct performances. She became known in England through several concerts at Queen's Hall and Wigmore Hall, and broadcasts of old and new French music from London. In 1936, with her own singers from Paris, she gave the first public performance in London of one of Schutz's Passions and Faure's Requiem. The next year she became the first woman to conduct a whole program of the Royal Phil-harmonic Society...
After the state dinner (guinea hen), the royal guests repaired to the East Room where a troupe of 15 dancers in sneakers, sweatshirts and black tights performed five Jerome Robbins modern jazz ballets and a modern version of Afternoon of a Faun, in the first full-scale ballet perform ance in White House history.- (The dancers had been hastily rehearsing all day, under the direction of choreographer Robbins and the approving eye of the First Lady, who graciously allowed them to use the Green Room as a temporary dressing room.) Glancing at one of the muscular male dancers. Vice President...
...confusion onstage was loudly reminiscent of a 1961 broadcast during which the BBC startled England with a perform ance of Mobile for Tape and Percussion, identified as the work of young, avant-garde Polish Composer Piotr Zak (TIME, Aug. n). Composer Zak's cacophonous creation lasted twelve minutes and left the London Times complaining desperately: "It was certainly difficult to grasp more than the music's broad outlines, partly be cause of the high proportion of unpitched sounds and partly because of their extreme diversity." Zak's Mobile proved to be the handi work of two pranksters...
...which primitive dice were made. Although Composer Cage was preaching the aleatory doctrine eleven years' ago (in his Imaginary Landscape No. 4, he conducted an ensemble that played twelve radios simultaneously), the big boom in music-by-chance has come only recently; summer festivals at Donaueschingen and Darmstadt perform it with enthusiasm...
Life on Pala has some remarkable features. A 30-night supply of contraceptives is delivered free with the mails once a month. Also there is insemination without intercourse; the best sperm goes into deep freeze so that top citizens may perform patriarchal prodigies of propagation. The normal nuttiness common to man in the demented Outside has been abolished by a program of adoption in which children rotate at will among a committee of 20 sets of parents...