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Stravinsky: "Les Noces," "Renard" and "Ragtime for Eleven Instruments" (Mildred Allen, soprano; Regina Sarfaty, mezzo; Loren Driscoll and George Shirley, tenors; William Murphy, baritone; Donald Gramm and Robert Oliver, basses; Igor Stravinsky conducting; Columbia). A brightly performed addition to the growing collection of Stravinsky's works conducted by the composer himself. At Stravinsky's own request, Composers Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss and Roger Sessions play the piano parts in Les Noces, and in this and the other works Stravinsky shapes performances of water clarity and rhythmic fire. Ragtime is the album's special treat...
...plastic bombs went off all week long. One exploded at the house of Culture Minister André Malraux, but the famed author of Man's Fate was not at home. The detonation drove 300 splinters of glass into the face and body of four-year-old Delphine Renard, whose engineer father occupied the ground floor. Doctors last week operated in the hope of saving her sight...
...from President Kennedy and rushed into the fray. His broad face loomed from Socialist posters all over Belgium, and party workers declared that as a moderate, and a notable orator, he was just the man to counteract the alarm produced in staid Belgian voters by rabble-rousing André Renard, whose strikers had kept the nation paralyzed for five weeks and cost the economy an estimated $150 million...
Predictably excepted were the zealous followers of Labor Leader André Renard. After a harangue from Renard, 600 of his workers rioted through the streets of Liège. Renard's intransigence kept the big steel plants closed, but other Liège strikers deserted him. Streetcars ran and coal mines were operating. Furthermore, Renard had antagonized most of his fellow Socialists. At week's end even he gave up, bowed to a union leaders' vote to end the strike...
Victory would not necessarily be lasting. Whatever his fellow - Socialists in Parliament might do. Andre Renard was prepared to fight on. In his Walloon stronghold of Namur. 400 Socialist political leaders passed a resolution demanding that the Walloons should be free to break away and "choose their own means of social and economic expansion." At week's end Renard still commanded his loyal crowds, still recklessly kept his country balancing on the edge of anarchy...