Word: tahiti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rather he is testing a scientific theory and the trip to Cambridge is just a side event. A student of Polynesian anthoropology, the New Zealander believes that the raft "Kon-Tiki" which drifted from Peru to Tahiti could have made a round trip merely by switching currents...
...raft Kon-Tiki, which drifted across the Pacific from Peru to the Raroia Reef near Tahiti, may have been traveling a two-way highway. This is the theory of Dr. Thomas Davis of New Zealand, who believes that Polynesians made the roundtrip passage in great sailing canoes. If they stayed far enough south, they were helped by the prevailing winds and currents that cross that part of the Pacific from west to east. On the return trip, they were able to use the same winds and currents that favored the Kon-Tiki on its crossing near the equator. In fact...
...16th summer season came to a close, Pianist Artur Rubinstein and Conductor Charles Munch performed for 10,000 listeners in & around the wall-less Music Shed. Then Leonard Bernstein took the podium to lead a concert and a revised version of his 35-minute-long opera, Trouble in Tahiti (TIME, June 23). At week's end, there were three orchestral programs, one for chorus and one of chamber music. The grand finale : a 280-man performance of Berlioz' massive Requiem...
...good; he announced that he would retire from public life to catch up on his composing. Last week, at Brandeis University's first Festival of the Creative Arts in Waltham, Mass., Lennie Bernstein husked the fruit of his year's work, a "little opera" called Trouble in Tahiti...
...producing some moments of brilliance. The jazzy tone was appealing, but the effect was so disjointed that the opera seemed like a study for another Broadway success like Lennie's own On the Town (TIME, Jan. 8, 1945). New York Times Critic Howard Taubman suspected that Trouble In Tahiti, was written at "breakneck speed," came away with the impression that it "could and should have been much better." A larger audience will have a chance to judge for itself: NBC will produce it on TV next season...