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...prove his worth to Sham and his trainer, Frank ("Pancho") Martin. Before the Wood, Martin brazenly and unsuccessfully offered any takers the opportunity to bet $5,000 against his horse in a head-to-head contest with Secretariat. A Cuban who trains Sham for New York Contractor Sigmund Sommer, Martin is banking on the fact that no son of Bold Ruler has ever won a Derby, or any Triple Crown race for that matter. The Derby distance of 1¼ miles is too great, some believe, for Bold Ruler's progeny. And if Sham is not the horse...
...JOSEF SOMMER, who has usually specialized in portraying old men (and who played Caesar in the 1966 production), is now a properly lean and cynical Cassius. His wide vocal range and unfailingly intelligent line-readings add up to a first-rate performance. Joseph Maher's Casca will be almost equally good if he learns to say "part" and "market" instead of "paht" and "mahket...
...Since then he has produced three more novels. His nonfiction works were notable for their inaccuracies. His first marriage was annulled; his second wife died in a car crash in 1959, and he divorced his third wife, a London model, in 1965. Four years ago, Irving married Edith Sommer, a Swiss divorcee whose first husband, she says, was a German businessman and something of a "stiff...
...Music of Czechoslovakia (RCA; $5.98). Musicologists and conductors coming out of Prague these days speak fervently of the new school of young composers flourishing there. Here, at last, is convincing recorded documentation, performed by the London Symphony and Conductor Igor Buketoff. Vladimir Sommer's Vocal Symphony and Jan Klusak's First Invention are impressive enough, but the real "find" here is 15 Prints After Dürer's "Apocalypse" by 35-year-old Lubos Fišer (pronounced Fisher). Read musical episodes for prints, and you have a work that does not so much interpret...
Splendid too is the King of Josef Sommer, back for his seventh Festival season. So skillful has he become at portraying older men that one would never guess he is really a young man. When we first see the King, he is ailing; Sommer makes clear that the King is not only tired of state business but also just plain tired, as he gives a slight grunt from the exertion of stepping up to the throne. When he is led to reminisce about Bertram's deceased father, his eyes glaze over as nostalgia takes him back to better times long...