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Britten's War Requiem was given its premiere last spring shortly after the re-dedication of Coventry Cathedral, largely destroyed by Hitler's bombers, and recently rebuilt. "The most masterly and nobly inspired work that the composer has ever given us," exulted the London Times. But despite such resounding praise even Britten's most unrestrained admirers harbored some doubts about how his Mass would be received in Germany. As the Berlin Philharmonic began playing the Mass last week, perhaps the most nervous man in the house was Britten himself, perched in the tenth row with the score...
...perfect his passing motion, Tommy hung a canvas target on a wall of his garage, eventually got so accurate that he could fire a football into the center of a 2-ft. bull's-eye from 20 yds. away. Troy High's coach rebuilt his offense after Ferguson graduated-and Myers was it. By the time he was ready to graduate, he had offers from 15 colleges. But when the lanky youngster turned up at Northwestern, Coach Parseghian wondered if the band might not be the best place for him after all. "He was such a white-faced...
...bauxite from central Arkansas will move to market bv water. Shippers will save as much as $2.30 a ton on rock phosphate, 13? a bushel on wheat, up to $10 a ton on steel compared to present rail rates. In all, the Corps of Engineers estimates that the rebuilt Arkansas River will carry 13 million tons of cargo at an annual savings of $40 million under train costs...
...Bavarian forests near Munich, Producer-Director John Sturges has rebuilt Stalag 3, and his Great Escape shows promise of being the best P.O.W. picture since Stalag 17-closely following the bestselling personal-experience story written by Paul Brickhill. Underground, Tom, Dick and Harry are ingenious; they are rigged up with improvised cable cars, electric lights and pumping stations. But above ground the prison camp has an authenticity that is frightening, and visitors instinctively flinch under the guard towers high above masses of barbed wire...
...when he was appointed music director of the Hoftheater in Karlsruhe, he was already building a reputation as one of Europe's finest opera conductors. For three wartime years (1942-45), he labored in a pickle factory; at war's end he virtually rebuilt the musical life of Vienna by pulling together the Staatsoper and the Vienna Philharmonic...