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...Director Vera Stroyeva has made an exciting and surprisingly fast-paced spectacle out of the opera, and at the end even succeeds in inserting a plug for the People's Republic as, "Ever rising, ever spreading, grows the people's might." While the movie is advertised as featuring the chorus, orchestra, and ballet of the Bolshoi Opera Theatre, the ballet seems to have disappeared from this version. But Moussorgsky's music, drawn mostly from Russian folk songs, is exciting and plentiful. The color, too, is excellent--not like the red and blue "technicolor" of older Russian films. There is another...
...popeyed, bushy-haired little man had scarcely raised his baton to signal the opening of the piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
...sonatas. Slowly she reawakened his interest, at last persuaded him to conduct an orchestra with herself as soloist for a series of recordings. Under Soloist Franceschi's watchful eye, the recordings were completed. It seemed this week that Conductor Ferrara may at last be licking his old weakness. Vera Franceschi is sure of it. She plans to bring him to the U.S. this fall, put him in the hands of competent doctors and eventually return him to full-time classical music. "If I can help it," says she, "he'll never faint again...
Born. To Isaac Stern, 35, top-ranking, Russian-born U.S. violinist, now on tour of the U.S.S.R. (TIME, May 14), and Vera Lindenblit Stern, 28: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan. Name: Shira...
...conference will be opened by the keynote address, to be given by Mrs. Vera Micheles Dean, editor of "The Foreign Policy Bulletin." This speech, called the Inglis Lecture, will be given at 8 p.m. Wednesday, in Fogg...