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...first home-town performance in six years, Soprano Sayao chose Debussy's ethereal opera, Pelléas et Mélisande, which she considers her best job at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. (Said she: "I don't know how Brazilian audience will receive this thing. They just begin to understand Wagner and Debussy maybe.") Her suspicions were right...
...Andy May was the busy mentor of the Garsson brothers' nexus of paper-built munitions companies, that it was fairly common talk around the Gars-sons' Washington office that packets of $1,000 and $3,000 were sent up The Hill to handy Andy (TIME, July 15 et...
...barn. In the barn stalls a pianist raced through the Bach-Busoni Toccata in C Major; in the hayloft upstairs a madrigal group worked over Purcells 17th-Century masque opera, King Arthur. Somewhere in a clump of birch a lone flutist piped the theme of Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe. Down by the shores of inky Lake Mahkeenac, a brass section blared Moussorgsky's A Night on Bald Mountain, and inside the lakeside clubhouse 23-year-old Composer Lukas Foss, a Koussevitzky favorite, beat out a frenzied boogie-woogie...
Berkshire Festival*(Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No, 2 in C Minor, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, second suite. Pianist Eugene List, soloist...
...Weber is a zealous scholar, hunting and trapping the smallest details. He is also a zealous critic, going well out of his way to lambaste certain "modern" writers (T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, et al.) whose beliefs and techniques differ from those of Hardy...