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Finally, welcome to Peter Grimes and Benjamin Britten. Opera people everywhere hail its coming. Nevertheless, we shall always find inspiration in the great procession of music dramas and composers from Britten right back to Lully and Gluck.
Broad jump--Won by Bundy, (Y) (21 feet 9 7/8 inches); second, Grimes. (Y) 21 feet 8 1/4 inches); second, Thayer (H) (21 feet 1 3/4 inches.)
60-yard high hurdles--Won by Cook, (Y); second, Grimes, (Y); third, Coville, (H). Time--0:07.6.
At the end of the first act of Peter Grimes, the applause was tentative. It came as something of a blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were...
Peter Grimes, by Britain's gifted young Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16), was unquestionably a success-the most successful new opera the Met had put on in years. It was not, however, the success it had been in Europe. The Met had lavished great care on it: the chorus...