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Difficult though it may be, the quartet that the long-suffering Ojai (Calif.) Festival audience heard last week has proved to be one of the most successful of modernist chamber works. At last week's UNESCO-sponsored International Rostrum of Composers in Paris, it was voted the outstanding musical work of the season. Winner of Pulitzer Prize and of the 1961 New York Music Critics Circle award, it has been recorded (by RCA Victor) and in the single year since its premiere, it has been played at most of the major European festivals. In various program notes around...
...This time something new happened, a violation of custom for which old Capitol Hill newsmen could recall no precedent: in a grand gesture of affection and respect, both Congressmen and spectators stood up and applauded the old man as he started up the steps to the Speaker's rostrum...
...move this program. Let us be sure that we can move it. And the only way we can be sure that this program will move is to adopt this resolution." Most of the House rose to applaud Rayburn as he climbed back to the Speaker's rostrum, but Judge Smith stayed slumped in his chair...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Prominent Cincinnati Attorney and Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft takes the affirmative on "Should a Church Pulpit Be a Political Rostrum?" The naysayer: Roman Catholic Layman William F. Buckley, editor of the spiky, ultra-conservative National Review...
...gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum came the perennial plea for "Odah, odah!" But somehow, through the din, the nation's problems got discussed and decided...