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...Indiana's Congressman Charles Halleck. Mr. Sam grandly ruled unanimous consent on his surprise package, despite a noisy objection from Tennessee's loose-tongued Ross ("Largemouth") Bass,*who said it was "an unusual precedent." ¶ Pennsylvania's six-term Republican Congressman Carroll Kearns, onetime Chicago Symphony soloist (baritone) fights a lonely battle for his muse on lawyer-dominated Capitol Hill. Says Kearns, who, at the request of Secretary of State Dulles, recently conducted four Air Force Symphony concerts in Iceland: "If I could put a Sputnik into the air, I would like to have it wired...
...also no detriment to any concert to have a soloist like O'Brien Nicholas, whose work over the past few years has been so consistently brilliant that the most one can say is that she sounds even better this year than before. Thomas Beveridge sang with his dependable musicality. And Sharon Price, breaking into the clique, provided the contrast of a more personal and emotional interpretation of her aria which followed an identical one by Miss Nicholas in the opening Bach Cantata...
...Choral Society came back for six shorter numbers, including two charming German pieces, Brahms' "Der Brautigam" and Dvorak's "Das Voglein." Soloist Vivian Thomas performed capably in Moussorgsky's "Chanson D'Enfant," and Kodaly's "The Angels and the Shepherds" provided a nice finish to a long evening. Judging from Thursday night, this year is not an off-year for either singing or dancing at Radcliffe...
...major work of the service in memory of the eminent English composer who died this year will be his "Five Mystical Songs," poems by by George Herbert set for baritone solo and chorus. John Horner, from the New England Conservatory of Music, will be the soloist. Motets and organ works by Williams will make up the remainder of the program...
Fortunately, Joseph de Pasquale, the principal violist of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, who was guest soloist in the Berlioz, produced a performance which was absorbing enough to take attention away from some of the orchestra's defects, and at the same time add an element of warmth which was absent from the orchestral accompaniment...