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...dead dictator's luxurious train rolled from Berlin across the old, beaten land. In Hitler's bed slept James F. Byrnes, of Charleston, S.C. His advisor, Benjamin V. Cohen of Muncie, Ind., slept in Göring's bed, restlessly. The train rolled into Stuttgart's bomb-wrecked station and Byrnes got off to ride behind an escort of screeching U.S. Army jeeps to the Staatstheater. There, watched by U.S. generals and diplomats, German functionaries and civilians, Russian and other newspapermen, Byrnes delivered the speech which Europe and Asia recognized as America's boldest move...
...Named for Benjamin Davis Wilson, a winegrower who blazed a trail up the 5,710-foot mountain in 1864 in search of lumber for wine casks...
...Rosenkavalier in 1911.* There have even been few good tries (Deems Taylor's Peter Ibbetson, two by Gian-Carlo Menotti). Last week U.S. critics got a first look and listen to a year-old English opera, Peter Grimes. They almost unanimously hailed frail, 32-year-old Benjamin Britten as the most promising operatic composer...
Song for God. When he was eight years old Benjamin Britten revealed his unorthodox musical behavior by writing an angry song to be sung by God. He wrote a U.S. operetta named Paul Bunyan which got no place. At Tanglewood he glumly watched rehearsals wearing a pearl-grey jacket, a yellow tie and strap sandals...
...Lucretia, Britten would like to "bring over the original British company." Actor-producer Eddie (The Glass Menagerie) Dowling hopes to produce Peter Grimes on Broadway since Manhattan's starchy Metropolitan Opera has shown no real interest so far. The Metropolitan stood on history. Up to the era of Benjamin Britten, at least, no English-speaking composer has ever written a first-class grand opera...