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Hungary's late great Composer Bela Bartok used to refer fondly to his First Piano Concerto as his "stepchild." Critics have often used harsher terms. "Unmitigated ugliness," wrote the Nation at the work's U.S. premiere. That was in 1928, when the 46-year-old composer himself was at the piano and his old friend Fritz Reiner on the podium. Since then, the work has rarely been performed in Europe and never by a major U.S. orchestra. Last week it made a long overdue reappearance under the baton of Conductor Reiner, and this time the stepchild clearly strode...
Regarding your Feb. 8 article, "Three Who Defied De Gaulle," you refer to Pierre Lagaillarde as regarding himself as "anti-Semitic." To an American this would probably be interpreted as being anti-Jewish, whereas in Lagaillarde's frame of reference this might be interpreted as an anti-Arab sentiment, since they too are a Semitic people. Please clarify...
...Baalbek verandah" in Lebanon-a vast and ancient platform of huge stone slabs-may have been the launching site for the return trip of cosmonauts from another world. Though discounting the Bible as a source of revealed religion, Writers Rich and Chernenkov eagerly accept it as a historical document. References to angels descending to earth, they decided, may refer to travelers from outer space, "just as some hundreds of years ago the first Spaniards were taken for gods by the Indians." Such Biblical figures as Enoch and Elijah, who "reportedly" ascended to heaven, may have been sample earthlings taken back...
Never "peevish," always sunny and generous (like mischievous, young [37] TIME magazine, in fact), I did not refer to the admirable Arthur Miller as a "writer-cripple" [Jan. 18]. That is Miller's phrase, not mine; it appears in its proper context in a theater piece I wrote for the current Partisan Review...
...Rodgers' mild annoyance, sportswriters constantly refer to him as "a second Cousy." His set shot is still no match for Cousy's, and he lacks the great man's supremely confident flair. But Cousy is seven years older. It seems only a matter of time before Philadelphia's Guy Rodgers becomes the game's finest ball handler, second to nobody...