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...Texas river bottoms the sweet gum trees were tinged with yellow. At night, deer jumped the wire fences to nibble at the heavy-headed sorghum. The rivers ran low and clear, and yellow cats, black bass, carp and perch sailed lazily in their depths, too fat to bother with baited hooks. In northern Michigan, the bow & arrow boys, 18,000 strong, patiently honed their two-and three-bladed arrows, tentatively twanged their 5O-lb. bows, got out their brown-and-green camouflage suits, the grease paint and burnt cork for blacking their faces while stalking the wary deer...
Verdi: I Lombard! (Aldo Bertocci, tenor; Mario Petri, bass-baritone; Miriam Pirazzini, mezzo-soprano; Maria Vitale, soprano; Gustavo Gallo, tenor; Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Manno Wolf-Ferrari conducting; 6 sides LP). Verdi's fourth opera (1843) is a violent story of love and religion in the 11th Century...
...young man in slacks and sport shirt planted his stocking feet beside the microphone, began bleating plaintively, picking a lackadaisical guitar. At his back were five other musicians - pianist, bass fiddler and three more guitarists - all working without written music. Sang the fellow in stocking feet...
...huge (200 ft.) stage in near darkness. But even traditionalists had to admit that the result of it all was a Parsifal of strong simplicity, rich with the mystery of its Grail theme. Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch and the orchestra gave a faultless musical performance, and young (30) U.S. Bass-Baritone George London sang a magnificent Amfortas. Glowed Wagner Biographer Ernest Newman, 82, critic of the London Sunday Times and a Bayreuth regular for half a century: "The most beautiful Parsifal I have ever seen. I will never go to Covent Garden for it again. I will only see it here...
...season, Bayreuth will be pure Wagner, with a good many newcomers among the performers. Unlike Furtwängler, neither of the Wagner conductors, Hans Knappertsbusch and Herbert von Karajan, has ever held the festival podium before. Among the new singers: Met Soprano Astrid Varnay (Brünhilde) and U.S. Bass-Baritone George London (Amfortas in Parsifal), who has been a postwar star of the Vienna State Opera (TIME...