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Backstage Shuffle. More than half the Met's collection of Western European arts and European paintings is inaccessible to the public. The new wing would solve this problem, and on that basis New York Parks Administrator August Heckscher in 1971 approved the building plan for the expansion on Central Park land. Now it turned out that three-quarters of the southwest wing would not be used to display works of art at all; occupied by Annenberg's project, it would be closed to the public-a backstage shuffle that Hoving managed to keep secret almost to the last...
...costumes were excellent, and so were the instrumentalists. (Hats off to Cyrus Stewart for his virtuoso performance of the horn part in Curlew River. ) The main credit, however, must go to Martin Kessler, musical director of both works, and to Wakeen Ray-Riv (choreographer in the Britten) and Charles Heckscher (director of Daniel ). Most of all, they deserve our gratitude for producing these seldom heard works and, even more, for giving them the performance they deserve...
...with civil liberties, agreed to allow friends who were interested to gather at their apartment to hear the Panthers' case. It was not exactly a jury of the Panthers' peers, however. Among the guests were such social notables as the Peter Duchins, Heiress Cynthia Phipps, Mrs. August Heckscher and Mrs. Sidney Lumet...
...yesterday's match, Schienmann staged a brilliant comeback, rallying from a 2-0 deficit in games. In that stretch, Schienmann shifted into an aggressive, less orderly style of play. He cut nearly every ball off at mid-court and forced Ben Heckscher of Williams to play from the backcourt where his drop shots and corner shots were less effective...
...fifth game, Schienmann led 7-2 and 10-8, but Heckscher ran off 6 straight points, aided somewhat by some carelessly aimed volleys by Schienmann...