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...desired combination of sounds, he records them on tape and snips and joins and re-records until his composition is done. It took him a year and a half to complete a 17-minute composition. The result has many of the qualities of twelve-tone music by the late Anton von Webern, tends to make its listeners giggle at first, but then to be come absorbed in the fantastic world of unheard-of sound...
...birthday cake." he recalls, "I always made the same wish-to be an artist." Achieving that wish turned out to be a long haul that took him to the Art Students' League, abroad for a year's painting in Paris, and home again to work with Muralist Anton Refregier and Abstractionist Stuart Davis. Then a summer on Deer Island, off the Maine coast, gave Kienbusch his clue to what he liked to paint best: "The world of many things I love-Maine islands, trees, the sea, fences, gong buoys, churches, roses, mountains...
...individual." Three weeks ago the Bulgarian Politburo charged him with "violation of legality in the trial of Kostov," pronounced Kostov posthumously innocent, and freed his accomplices. Last week Chervenkov's comrades deposed him as Premier, relegated him to one of four Deputy Premiers. His successor: dandified Anton Yugov, 52, a home-grown hatchet man who, as Interior Minister in 1945, admittedly executed 2,000 political enemies. Tito's Yugoslavs will presumably find Yugov more friendly than the Wolf. Bulgarians are unlikely to notice much difference...
...week, many in the crowd in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall felt they were about to listen to the best living pianist. All of them knew that they were to witness a notable musical event: the last of the great romantic performers in the spectacular tradition of Liszt and Anton Rubinstein* had set himself a schedule of no less than 17 major works in a series of five concerts in 13 days-all the concertos of Beethoven and Brahms, plus ten works by Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Liszt, Chopin, Falla, Franck and Schumann...
Only the dashing skill of the Scandinavians, Swiss and Austrians in the skiing events kept Russia's team lead as low as it was. More than any other single competitor, Austria's Anton ("Toni") Sailer held back the new giants of winter sport. Cortina's only three-time gold-medal winner (giant slalom, slalom and downhill), handsome Toni Sailer was the undisputed hero of the Winter Olympics. Thousands of his countrymen crossed the border to watch him schuss to victory, his well-known white cap topped with streamers, his bright white smile gleaming under dark goggles...