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...arrived ambassador scored well with a novel form of entertainment. She and her husband, a former law school dean, worked up a month-long "Image of Chile" program, lured more than 300 diplomats and officials, including the Bobby Kennedys, the Johnsons, the Arthur Schlesingers Jr., to hear performers like Pianist Claudio Arrau and Felicia Montealegre, Leonard Bernstein's actress wife, who recited Chilean poetry...
...favorite Pichelsteiner, a sort of Bavarian stew, after which he likes to sit in his black leather chair, looking at documents or playing cards with Luise. While he is reading, Erhard almost always has a stack of classical LPs on the record player: Beethoven, Schubert, Mozart, Chopin. A fair pianist himself -he once hoped to become a conductor -he tolerates nothing modern. His watchword: ''Not one step beyond Strauss" (he means Richard, not Franz Josef). As he listens, he sips a long, cool Scotch and soda ("a habit I picked up from the Americans") and inevitably puffs...
...Word, Picture & Song. The ambitious programs to come include a photo exhibition of Chile's beautiful Andean landscape and its handsome people, recitals by Chile's brilliant young cellist, Edgar Fischer, its famed Pianist Claudio Arrau and two of his most promising students, Mario Miranda and Alfonso Montecino. As the month goes on, Chile's writers will meet their U.S. con temporaries for panel discussions of the Chilean novel, featuring Sometime Critic Arthur Schlesinger, and theater, featuring Director Jose Quintero. Washington will be invited to a folklore program of song and dance; and Washington's Howard...
Died. Reginald John Connelly, 67, British composer and music publisher, a onetime vaudeville pianist who authored or co-authored more than 200 songs, but is best remembered for a 1925 ditty dashed off with Fellow Trouper Jimmy Campbell on a train ride between engagements, Show me the Way to Go Home; in Bournemouth, England...
...slept through his stint, but another, who took over the keyboard himself when one of Cage's men failed to show up, found his mind tuned to an "inner state of balance"-whatever that is. "The experience," he wrote after he recovered, "is dreamlike, and the pianist tries to resist waking...