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Potboiler. In Savannah, Amateur Moonshiner Caleb Grimes staggered 14 miles from his farm to police headquarters to confess that he had,just spent two days trying to recover from the effects of sampling his homemade whisky, wheezed: "Get rid of the stuff before it kills somebody."
Wrote the Sunday Observer's careful Eric Blom: "The same salty sea tang of Peter Grimes is there with . . . riper humanity, more compassionate understanding, expressed in a way impossible to achieve except through music."
For his first grand-scale opera since Peter Grimes, 38-year-old "Benjy" turned again to tragedy and the sea. He took his story from Herman Melville's novel of the British navy during the Napoleonic wars, and enlisted one of Britain's leading literary lights, Novelist E...
The program notes read like a travel brochure: "Let us walk through Mozart's garden . . . We enter by an unassuming little gate: the Symphony in D [K.84] of the 14-year-old Mozart." The guide on this all-Mozart stroll last week was Benjamin Britten, 37, one of Britain...
When Sokolsky's column came in two days later, attacking Eisenhower's report on Europe, Grimes burned at the column's headline: SALESMAN IKE. Grimes changed it to CRITICIZES IKE'S FINDINGS, then teed off on Sokolsky: "We hate to see a great patriot, who is...