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Terence Cogley '65-1, of Kirkland House and Santa Barbara, Calif., has been elected president of the Harvard Advocate...
Disappointment is always strongest when a work has moments of strength; one criticizes more readily a play with high aspirations. In the Counting House has both, and Arthur Penn's direction, facile and clever in the best sense, gives it clarity from time to time. Barbara Murray (Woody's secretary), and Kay Medford, a second receptionist, present their characters sympathetically...
...sings Child ballads* with an ethereal grace that seems to have been caught and stopped in passage in the air over the 18th century Atlantic. Barbara Allen Child 84) is one of the set pieces of folk singing, and no one sings it as achingly as she does. From Lonesome Road to All My Trials, her most typical selections are so mournful and quietly desperate that her early records would not be out of place at a funeral. More recently she has added some lighter material to create a semblance of variety, but the force of sadness in her personality...
...sing at the White House after a state dinner (TIME. March 2). Daughter of a St. Louis railway clerk, Grace Bumbry became interested in music in a fashion familiar to many American Negroes -singing in a church choir. Scholarships took her to Boston University, Northwestern, and finally to Santa Barbara's Music Academy of the West to study with Lotte Lehmann, the great German-born soprano, who last week returned to the Met as a stage director...
Swoboda made up for the rather overwhelming Giannini with a clear, clean interpretation of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony. Swoboda took the opening Allegro moderato at a leisurely, though defensible, tempo, modifying it as the music demanded. Michael Brenner, clarinet, and Barbara Cohen, oboe, reflected musical thoughtfulness and care in their solos opening and ending the second movement...