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...stage--that sort of thing. But Russell can't resist playing these scenes for the vicarious turn-on. Tommy smashes a figurative mirror, regains his senses, sings, "I'm Free," and leads the millions in a religious movement dedicated to himself, the abolition of drugs and alchohol, and a rite of plugging the eyes, ears and mouths of the brethren and letting them loose on the pinball machines. The fans turn on him in the end, and Tommy realizes that he must seek spiritual salvation alone, but this final revelation seems incidental the way Russel presents...
...solid year now, Billboard's chart of bestselling classical LPs has been topped by Scott Joplin rags. Last week there was a surprising change: Stravinsky's Rite of Spring led the list. Though revolutionary when first performed in 1913, the work is now a cliché of concert programming; 28 stereo versions are currently available. It seems likely that ragtime fell not to Stravinsky but to Georg Solti, who leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Solti (TIME cover, May 7, 1973) has quietly become the most popular conductor since Toscanini. A Solti appearance is sold out at once anywhere...
Died. Paul Cardinal Meouchi, 80, Maronite patriarch of Antioch and the Orient; in Bkerke, Lebanon. Spiritual head of 800,000 Maronite-rite Roman Catholics (65,000 of them in the U.S.), Meouchi played a major role in the delicate politics of Lebanese Christians and Moslems. Named bishop of Tyre in 1934 after serving in California, Indiana and Massachusetts parishes, he worked to prevent sectarian conflict, siding with Moslem opposition to Lebanon's Christian President Camille Chamoun in 1958 civil strife and recently supporting Palestinian territorial claims. Meouchi counted Jordan's King Hussein and Egypt's Anwar Sadat...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98). Solti's way with Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss stamps him as a Romantic and post-Romantic conductor without superior. This megatonic Rite now confirms his mastery of the contemporary idiom. Where Pierre Boulez etches in cold objectivity, Solti paints in swirling shapes and colors. The effect is electrifying...
...endanger the lives or health of persons who do not consent to exposure of such danger." That danger is still there. The week the Tennessee decision was handed down, a 28-year-old worshiper died in West Virginia from a rattlesnake bite incurred at a Pentecostal rite...