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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Damnation of Faust (Suzanne Danco, David Poleri, Martial Singher; Harvard and Radcliffe choruses; Boston Symphony conducted by Charles Munch; Victor 3 LPs). The greatest translation into music of Goethe's Faust, this score reaches heights of drama and tenderness undreamed of in Gounod's more popular version. Mephistopheles makes his entrances to portentous, brassy thunderclaps, Marguerite changes from an innocent child to a passionate woman in the toils of love, and Faust himself is almost painfully credible. The "dramatic legend" proved too big-and perhaps too tightly composed-to be a success on stage, but it is splendid...
Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury). The fourth LP of a contemporary classic, this version has the distinction of dazzlingly clear and closeup sound, presumably authentic interpretation by one of Bartok's pupils and performance by a fine orchestra...
Obernkirchen Children's Choir (Edith Möller, conductor; Angel). Thirty-five sweet-voiced youngsters from a small (pop. 6,400) town in Germany sing right prettily. Besides an ingenuous version of Schubert's Der Lindenbaum and other old favorites, they sing the popular Happy Wanderer. Their style resembles Fred Waring's showy choral technique. The group is now touring...
Some Protestants have long envied Roman Catholics their papal encyclicals, which guide the faithful in applying Christian teaching to the problems of secular life. The growing unity of Protestantism is producing its own Protestant version of encyclicals-reports and messages from ecumenical bodies that represent an interdenominational meeting of minds. Last week, following the message on "The Responsible Society" issued by the World Council of Churches at Evanston. Ill. (TIME, Sept. 6), came a 4,000-word declaration from the National Council of Churches on the application of Christian principles to economic life. Highlights...
...Menen's version, King Dasa-ratha is an old lecher who ministers to his harem more assiduously than to his people, and totters on his throne from lack of sleep. Venal flunkeys catch the king's ear, and tell him that his son Rama plans to kill him. Under a pious pretext, the old man banishes Rama from his kingdom for 14 years. Into exile with Rama go his dutiful wife Sita and his loyal brother...