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...performance which Foss gave Monday night was one of great virtuosity; it was a well-rehearsed, tightly-run concert. The first work, Webern's Five Pieces for Cello and Piano. performed by Foss and cellist Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi, went well, for all of its three minute duration. It was played with a kind of tense crispness which made every note transparent, and was the most understandable piece on the program...
After the Webern, Foss performed his Echoi for four instruments, assisted by Tsutsumi, percussionist Jan Williams, and clarinetist Edward Yadzinski. The title of the work tells its story. Echoi is Greek for "echoes," and, as Foss explains in his notes to the recorded version of the work, is also a name for some ancient Arabian modes. The piece is in four parts, somewhat loosely-structured, and is partly aleatory-at a random signal from the percussionist, the performers jump back to an earlier section of the work and replay it, in order to destroy whatever structure may have been created...
Owned by Japan's billion dollar Seibu Industries, whose holdings include Tokyo's fastest growing department store, a railroad and 36 hotels, Seibu of Los Angeles is the latest pet project of Seibu Chairman Yasujiro Tsutsumi, 74. During a 1959 visit to the U.S., Tsutsumi was shocked at the low quality of the Japanese products that he saw in well-to-do American homes. Convinced that there was a large unexploited market for Japan's wide range of quality merchandise, he decided that the way to tap it was not through specialty stores (such as Manhattan...
...pull off this daring gamble-which so far has cost Seibu $8,000,000-Tsutsumi is relying on a retailing formula that blends East and West. Housed in a block-long, four-story building with just touches of Japanese decor-a cluster of lanterns, an occasional screen and a few Nisei girls in geisha costume-Seibu of Los Angeles is essentially an American store with all the usual U.S. retailing gimmicks, including a two-deck parking garage and a roof-garden restaurant with bar. Its merchandise is predominantly Western-styled, and only 60% of it is made in Japan...
...Angeles store goes on from novelty to sustained success, Tsutsumi plans to expand into other U.S. cities. He emphasizes that his operations will not hurt U.S. industries because he intends to use his U.S. proceeds to buy American goods for his Tokyo store. In a cable to his U.S. staff last week he spelled out his objective: DO YOUR VERY BEST TO SELL TRULY FINE JAPANESE GOODS TO AMERICAN CUSTOMERS AND BUY WITH PROFITS AMERICAN GOODS NECESSARY FOR JAPAN AND THEREBY COOPERATE WITH AMERICAN DOLLAR DEFENSE MEASURES. TO INCREASE SALES FIGURES OF NEW STORE IS NOT FINAL PURPOSE...