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Lazar chose a program of three chestnuts - or, more accurately, two oaks separated by a lilac bush. Wagners Meistersinger Prclude, Vaughan Williams Serehade to Music, and Beethoven's Eroica...
Whichever view prevails, the time may have passed when Congressmen could give lip service to ethical reform while waiting for public indignation to evaporate. Having already suffered through the humiliations of Dodd and Powell, Congress now faces an investigation of Missouri's Senator Edward Vaughan Long, whose financial connections with Jimmy Hoffa's chief counsel were recently disclosed by LIFE. "We cannot," says Williams, "let those charges go unanswered...
...rare breed. His tongue-twisting technique and feathery phrasing have dazzled concert audiences for more than a quarter-century; but purists still dismiss his performances of classical music as gimmickry, akin to playing horn concertos on a length of garden hose. Now and then, such composers as Ralph Vaughan Williams and Darius Milhaud have written pieces for him, but the repertory for harmonica remains woefully thin; most of Adler's concert selections must be adapted from music for other instruments...
...VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: HODIE (Angel). This first recording of Williams' cantata has some exuberant, even jazzy moments, but the general mood is sweetly hushed and hymnlike -a reverent setting for various poetic passages about Christmas, such as Thomas Hardy's Oxen and Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. David Willcocks turns in his usual impeccable performance as director of the several choruses and the London Symphony Orchestra...
Died. Guy Warner Vaughan, 82, president of Curtiss-Wright Corp. from 1935 to 1949, whose love of speed took him from auto racing and designing (the 1908 Vaughan Runabout) into aviation, where he mass-produced 2,000 airplane engines per month during World War I, went on to develop the first truly U.S. engine (the Whirlwind J5, which powered the Spirit of St. Louis), and expanded his company in World War II to produce 142,840 engines and 26,269 military aircraft; of chronic bronchitis; in-New Rochelle...