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Levin wrote the oratorio last spring, and had it performed at the Signet Society in May. He is now scouting the University for a group of singers to present the work for a wider audience sometime after Thanksgiving...
Epps is also the author of a number of articles on Civil Rights and Malcolm X. An American Member of the Signet Society, he is currently writing a book entitled Malcolm X at Harvard which will include his own introduction and Malcolm X's three speeches at Harvard. This series, Epps points out, is indicative of the major phases Malcolm X went through. The first lecture given in 1961 at the Law School Forum, when he appeared as the disciple of Elijah Muhammad, was "rigid and fanatic and filled with Black Nationalist rhetoric...
...Wilson's news, and Tory Opposition Leader Ted Heath even rose to welcome him "warmly" after his "long and arduous mission." But the euphoria did not last long. Two days later, the British Prime Minister was back in Commons, grey, grim, and rubbing his cheek nervously with the signet ring on his left hand, to report that "it is now clear that there is no prospect of agreement...
...Royal Hunt of the Sun, by Peter Shaffer. A huge heraldic signet bearing a black cross is pinned with ascetic severity to the rear wall of the stage. Suddenly, it begins to open like secret paneling. Triangular sections peel back, and tongues of gold lick the surrounding dark. In the center of the blazing disk, like a jeweled idol released from a total eclipse, stands the sun god, the Inca, immutable, glorious, incandescent. In another scene, bitter light stipples the Spanish soldiers' helmets and swords as they pantomime their nail-clawing ascent of the Andes, and the men seem...
Wagner was presented with the king's priceless signet ring and a promise of a lavish première of Tristan in Munich. In addition, the king promised Wagner all the money he needed, a new theater, a new music school and a new home. Ludwig also bombarded the 51-year-old composer with tender letters vowing eternal devotion. Wagner, a short, haggard-faced man, was careful not to alienate his doting benefactor, but he had other irons in the fire. Immediately on his arrival in Munich he asked that his close friend, Conductor Hans...