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...bestseller charts, Pat Boone is still not convinced that his success is real or permanent. He is a high-mark senior at Columbia University, is still planning to become a teacher. Last week, on a swing through the Midwest, he wound up eleven shows in 14 days. A Baton Rouge disk jockey, determined to get Boone to town by some means or other, climbed a pole and announced his determination to sit there until the hero arrived. "He's gonna sit there until I come down," sighs Pat, "so I suppose I'll have...
Knockout Performance. In Hamlin, N.Y., during a firemen's parade, Drum Major Irving Gillam gave his baton an especially high toss, watched for it to come down, saw sparks fall instead as the baton fused to a 5,000-volt power line, knocked out village electricity for an hour and a half...
Igor Stravinsky Chamber Works 1911-1954 (Columbia). A representative collection, presumably played as well as possible, since the composer himself is brandishing the baton. At one stylistic extreme is his Septet, which makes use of a method of composition similar to that used by his late rival. Arnold (Twelve-Tone) Schoenberg. At the other extreme are Stravinsky's early songs, orchestrated recently, which, in Marni Nixon's bell-clear soprano, have a childlike charm...
...popeyed, bushy-haired little man had scarcely raised his baton to signal the opening of the piano concerto's slow movement when he paled and swayed on the podium. Soloist Vera Franceschi swiftly signaled the sound engineers to stop the recording. Then she helped Conductor Franco Ferrara to a chair, plied him with black coffee. Ten minutes later he rapped the Santa Cecilia Orchestra of Rome to silence, led them the rest of the way through a singing recording of Ildebrando Pizzetti's Canti della Stagione Alta...
With most of his program gone with the Baton Rouge wind, Earl Long was still ready and willing to play with fire to get his way: if his timber tax bill failed to pass, he warned, he might veto a measure appropriating funds for fire fighting in Louisiana's vast forests...