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...concerts. In Tel Aviv, 500 music lovers who could not squeeze into the already-packed 3,000-seat Mann Auditorium were chased by police from a parapet outside the second floor. In Jerusalem, an opening-night crowd of 3,500 stood politely when Israeli President Izhak Ben-Zvi entered, then burst into thunderous applause for Casals. An astonishing total of 15,000 people flocked to five recitals in Tel Aviv to hear the internationally famed Budapest String Quartet pluck out all 16 Beethoven string quartets...
...consider their verdict-which can hardly be anything but guilty. Prosecutor Hausner has made it clear that he will then ask for the death penalty. Eichmann can appeal his case to the Israeli Supreme Court and, failing there, can ask clemency of Israel's President Isaac Ben-Zvi...
...many of the big names in music have turned up at Marlboro. Last week all 17 practice rooms were occupied every day. In the new dormitory, Baritone Martial Singher worked on Berlioz' Villanelle with a group of operatic hopefuls. In another cottage, Pianist Claude Frank discussed with Violinist Zvi Zeitlin how to weave the frail melodies of the strings with the fluttering piano passages of Gabriel Faure's Piano Quartet No. 1. Violinist Alexander ("Sasha") Schneider ran through a set of Beethoven sonatas with Artistic Director Serkin's twelve-year-old son, Peter, at the piano...
...plane (No. 4X-AGE) carrying the Israeli delegation landed at Buenos Aires airport. At the controls was Zvi Tohar. chief pilot of the airline, and besides the delegation the Bristol Britannia transport carried an abnormally large crew of 19. Six hours later. New York Manager Joseph Klein went to the airport, had the plane fueled up and cleared for departure to "Dakar, Rome and further destination pending orders from El Al headquarters." Shortly after midnight, as a couple of sleepy watchmen looked on, Klein dispatched the plane himself, and in effect stranded the Israeli delegation. Had the Britannia...
Inviting the heads of Israel's Christian churches and communities to a New Year's tea, sad-faced old President Itzhak ben-Zvi of Israel begged his guests to "pray for the peace of Jerusalem." The peace of Jerusalem-and the Middle East -was standing in the need of prayer last week...