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...struck," said Geneva's Le Courrier, "by the extraordinary ensemble of these four musicians who have come from Chicago with something other than corned beef in their suitcases." Wrote Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk: "The highest praise can scarcely suffice . . . They have made us aware that along with the harshly materialistic, there is another America." In Braunschweig, West Germany, the Goslarsche Zeitung critic ran out of superlatives: "How can one write criticism when the whole evening was without a flaw?" Acclaim awaited the quartet in small towns as well as big: In Sweden's Malmo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Bang-Bang Quartet | 1/18/1960 | See Source »

...demand that something be done about Leopold spread even to the Catholic Royalist newspaper, Het Volk, which had stood gamely by him during the pre-abdication days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIUM: A Prevalence of Kings | 6/8/1959 | See Source »

...Queen's men could not make the audience seem any the more palatable. "A shame for our country," cried Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NETHERLANDS: The Queen & the Saucers | 6/1/1959 | See Source »

ELIZABETH VOLK Wilmington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 18, 1959 | 5/18/1959 | See Source »

Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Brussels All-Stars | 7/28/1958 | See Source »

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