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...Thomas Beecham recorded the work with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus (Jennifer Vyvyan, Monica Sinclair, Jon Vickers, Giorgio Tozzi; RCA Victor, 4 LPs, mono and stereo). His performance is the most opulent of the lot, the most animated-and by all odds the farthest from any thought in Handel's mind. In defiance of "drowsy armchair purists," Beecham offers a thunderously 19th century-styled orchestration-lush, richly colored, and full of dramatic contrasts. Soloists and chorus are uniformly fine, but the recording is not for listeners who take their Handel neat. Eugene Ormandy offers a severely cut reading...
...Britain, where more than 6,000 were killed, 300,000 injured in traffic accidents last year, a Church of England clergyman had a similar message for motorists. Vicar Vyvyan Watts-Jones of Darlaston's All Saints Church suggested a ten-second prayer to be pasted on dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed...
...publishing renaissance in the U.S. In addition to this one-volume edition of Wilde's collected works, bookstores offer a collection of his bright sayings (The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde; John Day; $4) and a half-personal, half-literary memoir by his son, who took the name Vyvyan Holland (Son of Oscar Wilde; Dutton; $3.75). All of these anticipate the centenary of Wilde's birth (1856). Is he worth rereading? Much of his work is, and almost all is worth at least re-browsing...
...section where several famous poems and plays were written, a plaque was unveiled, thus restoring to the playwright, after some 60 years of disgrace in England, a semblance of respectability. Its terse inscription: "Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, wit and dramatist, lived here." On hand were Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland (who recently described his inherited stigma in Son of Oscar Wilde-TIME, Sept. 27), Actor Michael Redgrave, Poets T. S. Eliot and Sacheverell Sitwell, and Lord Cecil Douglas, grandson of the unforgiving ninth Marquess of Queensberry, whose grim insistence that Wilde go behind bars was the prime force that...
...mother's family were prepared to grant him no such laurels. If Vyvyan took a drop too much at a party, he was promptly described in family circles as being "dead drunk." When Vyvyan Holland went to Cambridge-Oxford was out of the question since his father had gone there-his guardian was quick to warn those in charge that he was "idle, drank to excess and frequented bad company." In the years since, Vyvyan Holland has found, befriended and been befriended by many old friends of his father. He has married...