Word: viewings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year's opera choice, Menotti's The Consul, was most timely in view of recent events in Hungary. No less timely was this year's selection, in view of the announcement that the U.S. will attempt three lunar explorations this fall: Jacques Offenbach's musical fantasy, The Voyage to the Moon (1875). This was the American premiere of the work, and the first production of the newly-formed Boston repertory company, The Opera Group. The work was given in a brilliant English adaptation, complete with two full-blown ballets (on the front and back of the moon...
...view of these incidents," asked Harris, "do you think . . . that you overstepped the bounds of propriety?" Replied Adams, conceding a point: "That is a fair question...
Angered by persistent Peking attacks on his policy of "national Communism," Yugoslavia's Marshal Tito abandoned his former view of the Chinese Reds as a moderating influence on the Kremlin, last week implicitly accused Mao & Co. of being warmongers who boasted that "if 300 million [Chinese] were killed, 300 million would still remain." Gone, too, was Tito's old confidence in Khrushchev as the Kremlin's apostle of liberalism. The bitter new theory is that Khrushchev himself ordered the execution of Nagy and Maleter as a blow against Tito...
...first chance last week to mend some of the damage done to U.S.-Latin American relations by the attacks on Vice President Richard Nixon. In a letter to Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, Ike suggested "that our two governments should consult together as soon as possible with a view to approaching other members of the Pan-American community, and starting promptly on measures that would produce throughout the continent a reaffirmation of devotion to Pan-Americanism and better planning in promoting the common interests of our several countries...
...Export-Opus Jazz, Afternoon of a Faun and The Concert. In this quartet, Jazz-which Robbins regards as "my most important ballet in a long time"-was the only wholly new work. Set to a jazz-flavored score by Manhattan-born Composer Robert Prince, it offered a back-alley view of the "postures, attitudes and rhythms" of the teen-agers who run and "rumble" on U.S. city streets...