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There are essentially three kinds of operas: those that glorify the human voice (Bellini, Donizetti), those that glorify the orchestra (Strauss, Berg) and those that glorify both (Mozart, Wagner). What would the ultimate non-or anti-opera be? Obviously, a work that glorified neither singers nor orchestra -in fact, had no singers or orchestra...
Last week in Germany such a work appeared. The orchestra pit of the Hamburg State Opera was empty, and up on the stage strode the weirdest bunch of non-human heavies since Wagner peopled his Ring cycle with gnomes, mermaids, dragons and bears. Five 21-ft. chrome-and-steel towers reeled in patterns that owed less to choreography than to the movement of armored tank columns. They were directed from backstage by electronic remote control, and were adorned with mirrors (20 to a tower) that caught the sunburst of spots, strobes and color projectors that beamed down upon them...
...Lieut. Calley. Last week appeared a number called The Battle Is Over ("The battle is over/ We've laid down our guns./ And now we must linger/ To see what we've done..."). Written by Jim Siegling and Frank Larabee, the ditty was recorded by John Wagner, previously best known for a country and western tune called Little Bit Late. "To me this song really captures the mood of the country," said Wagner. "It's a sad song, but it has a churchy feeling, a mood of hope, and I think one hearing of it will convince...
...Thomas and Leon Wagner, Third, 10. A softball league in Washington, 11. Elmer Valo. 12. The St. Louis Cardinals. 13. The Steelers took Len Dawson: the Browns. Jimmy Brown. 14. Doug Swift. 15. Layden, Studeher, Miller and Crawley. 16. The Chicago Bears...
FRIDAY: 1973 Inaugural Concert. Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Van Cliburn, and the Robert Wagner Chorale perform Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Beethoven's Fifth symphony, Grieg's Concerto is A Minor, and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." A rare treat but don't watch unless Nixon signs the ceasefire agreement. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. Live...