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...Blues (Paramount), the first movie made by Elvis Presley since his release from the U.S. Army (TIME, March 14), might be expected to answer one of the less pressing questions confronting the U.S. public: Did the Army make a man of him? Maybe so, but it sure didn't make him an actor...
...anachronistic "entertainments" sung by some of opera's grandest names-Giulietta Simionato and Ettore Bastianini wander through Anything You Can Do, Leontyne Price sings Summertime from Porgy and Bess. "Gershwin?" quips the introductory dialogue. "But Gershwin isn't even born yet." The gag, unfortunately, dies with the first listening...
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9 (London Symphony, under Sir Malcolm Sargent; Everest). A first stereo recording of one of the most ebullient, eccentric and delightful of Shostakovich's works. When the composer's orchestra-raucous, slapdash and happy-moves into battle, the effect is of a regiment under fluttering pennons posting to the attack...
Brahms: Concerto No. 2 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; the Chicago Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf; RCA Victor). In this first Richter recording made in the U.S., the great Russian pianist gives a performance as taut as a bent bow. At the end of the session, Richter turned to Conductor Leinsdorf and said: "Please explain to the orchestra that I could do no better." Nor could anyone...
...three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will climax this week in Rome in a "Christian summit meeting" with Pope John XXIII, the first meeting since the 14th century of a Roman pontiff and an Archbishop of Canterbury...