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...VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: SYMPHONY NO. 6, THE LARK ASCENDING (Angel). Because it was completed in 1947, this brilliant, troubling work is usually thought to be about World War II. The composer denied it, but the first three movements make up a harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia...
...McCarthy and Kennedy would be in the race. Though the Sinatras-Frank and Nancy-have for reasons of their own renounced the Kennedys for Humphrey, the Vice President's supporting cast is far shorter and markedly less sexy. H.H.H.'s leading B.P.: Tallulah Bankhead, Roberta Peters, Sarah Vaughan, Jack Dempsey, Joseph Wood Krutch, Isaac Stern, John Steinbeck, Ralph Ellison and James T. Farrell. Couturiere Mollie Parnis is on the list -though of course Muriel makes almost all of her own clothes...
...accompaniment" for How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (TIME, March 15), by Cunningham's friend Composer John Cage, had nothing to do with music. At a small table downstage left sat Cage and Actor David Vaughan in dinner jackets, sipping champagne while they read humorous snippets and anecdotes from Cage's writings ("When Gandhi was asked what he thought about Western civilization, he said, 'It would be nice' "). The text had no clear connection with the skittery maneuvers that Cunningham & Co. were carrying out onstage, and none of it had any bearing...
...since the heyday of the madrigalists four centuries ago has England seethed with so much native musical creativity as it does today. The British renaissance, which began half a century ago with Elgar and Vaughan Williams and continued with Walton and Britten, is currently upheld by a coterie of younger talents whose work is now beginning to make a worldwide noise. One of the most promising of the group and by far the best known, 31-year...
...Senate floor, a clutch of colleagues surrounded Edward Vaughan Long, pounding his back, shaking his hand, offering effusive congratulations. Had the Missouri Democrat cast a courageous vote, delivered a coruscating speech, proposed a pioneering...