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...building into a tiny theater. Eventually, after five years of labor and some half a million dollars, La Piccola Scala (cap. 600) was finished, its stage nestled cosily against the stage wall of its big sister, its interior decorated in old gold, but with smooth, simple lines, without a trace of baroque...
Bernstein, 37, has built his fanatic audience in a series of three Omnibus programs. In the first he discussed the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, and used an orchestra to trace the changes Beethoven made in the movement and patterning of his music. Says Bernstein: "Nobody knew whether people would sit still for 45 minutes on a subject like this. I had a notebook full of Beethoven's rejected sketches. We put them back into the symphony to see how it would have sounded if he hadn't been so determined on perfection...
This great theme of renunciation Fra Angelico made his own in life and art, raising it to a level rarely if ever surpassed. Its highest expression, and one of the world's great paintings, is the Cortona Annunciation. Only a trace of the early miniature painter remains in the loving care given the rich golden tapestry of the Virgin's chair; for the rest, Fra Angelico's painting has been awakened by the dawning Renaissance. With rows of Brunelleschian columns, he achieves perspective, relegating symbolism to the background, where the distant figures of Adam and Eve state...
...beaches and in the barrooms of the South Pacific, endless speculations continue but no man has yet offered a convincing explanation of why Dusty Miller and the 24 souls he carried aboard the twin-screw cabin cruiser Joyita two months ago should have disappeared without trace...
Sergeant Smith of the Cambridge police who is now in charge of the case, said that four cruisers and the University police carefully combed the area, including the Sachs estate, but failed to find any trace of the man. Smith said that the armed attacker was probably still at large in the area around the University...