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...outstanding works in a program of nothing but major works came first and last. Bach's Cantata 161, 'Komm, du susse Todesstunde' (1715) matched the efficiency of Mlle. Boulanger's conducting with its extreme economy of harmonic movement and accompaniment. Under her restraint, the ensemble of some twenty singers and twenty instrumentalists managed to sound personal, even intimate. Tenor Karl Dan Sorenson filled the museum court-yard with his clear and accurate voice; in her second solo, Contralto Jenneke Barton did the same...
...Urge to Educate. The Columbia television lectures are characteristic of Erpf's operations. Seven years ago, one of his investment sorties resulted in the creation of a profitable TV and outdoor-advertising chain called Metromedia. Inc.out of the ruins of the old Du Mont network. Recently, when he heard that Metromedia had an empty half hour of broadcast time in the morning, ardent Columbia Alumnus ('17). Erpf grabbed up the free time and got the lecture series under way with the financial backing of Columbia Associates, an organization of Columbia College well-wishers that he heads. The purpose...
...Algiers, the Place du Gouvernement, a sun-baked square between the casbah and the harbor, is known as "L'Abattoir" (the slaughterhouse). There, during the bloody struggle for Algerian independence, Moslem terrorists have taken a steady and fearful toll of Europeans. Last week, L'Abattoir butchers claimed two fresh victims in as many days. The deaths underscored an ugly new dimension that has been added, in its expiring moments, to the senseless 7½-year Algerian war. Both victims were newsmen...
France's De Gaulle sent a delegation headed by his trusted Algerian Affairs Minister, Louis Joxe. The F.L.N. delegation was headed by Vice Premier Belkacem Krim, a former French army noncom. As the delegates met in Evian's cream-colored Hotel du Pare, they had only to look out the window for evidence that Salan's S.A.O.* was still desperately trying to sabotage peace. French security forces prowled the town, armed motorboats guarded the water approaches over Lake Geneva, army halftracks along the esplanade pointed the snouts of antiaircraft guns skyward. In Paris, the S.A.O. struck massively...
...Du Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A documentary on crime in the U.S. from pre-Revolutionary days to the present. Edward G. Robinson does the narration...