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...even the more conservative scholars who accept these accounts as historically plausible agree that most of the famous Christmas legends are unsupported elaborations of the spare, precise biblical reports. In a new volume of reverent debunking called Born in Bethlehem (Helicon; $3.50), Dutch Theologian H. W. van der Vaart Smit borrows the conclusions of modern scriptural scholars to separate Christmas fact from Christmas fancy...
...sick, several of them fatally. In Los Angeles, automobiles spew out almost 80% of the smog-producing hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxides, and the afterburners now being compulsorily installed on California cars cannot do the whole job of cleaning up the city's air, said Dr. Arie Jan Haagen-Smit. If Angelenos want real relief, he said, they must have better, and preferably electric, public transportation, fewer commuters, smoother-flowing traffic, and cars that burn less fuel...
...Symphony No. 1, by Philadelphia-born Pianist Leo Smit, 36, performed by the Boston Symphony under Charles Munch. The work, which was four years in the writing, is solidly constructed and pricked by a series of adroit, Stravinsky-like dislocations of rhythm. The strings are almost continually and often trickily active -so much so that they tend to drown out the detail of other instruments and blur the musical ideas...
Copland: Piano Concerto (Leo Smit, piano, Radio Rome Symphony Orchestra conducted by the composer; Concert Hall). Sometimes called the "Jazz Concerto," this was written in 1926 (three years after Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue) and went far to establish Copland as a characteristically "American" composer. It is a fairly lurid work, with emphatic syncopations and jazz-age atmosphere; it still works, but it has become pretty corny...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Conductor Milton Katims, Pianist Leo Smit...