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...written any music about it, laments that he is "running out of suites" and talks wistfully of doing "one big symphony" based on either War and Peace or the life of Abraham Lincoln. Much modern music, says Grofé, leaves him cold, including the later works of Igor Stravinsky. "Sometimes," he says, "I feel I must take a course in music appreciation. If I understood modern music I might write that way myself...
...Baron." But soon ski lodges, hotels, a health center and an amphitheater rose where nothing had been before. The winter, according to Paepcke, could be the time for sport; but the summer was to be reserved for artists and intellectuals. The procession that came was impressive-birdlike Igor Stravinsky, rehearsing his Firebird in jeans he insisted on calling "pantaloons"; the leonine head of Albert Schweitzer bowed over a keyboard; ebullient Mortimer Adler conducting a rapid-fire philosophical discussion while sweating in a sauna (Finnish bath). "The Aspen idea," said Paepcke, "is the cross-fertilization of men's minds...
...Little Igor was not all candy. Some called him "the young Rimbaud," and he was taken up by all the "in" people. He married Nijinsky's daughter Kira (they were divorced during the war, and he is now married to an Italian princess). He wrote a cantata on a poem by Jean Cocteau, Hymnes, for orchestra, and a host of other breathlessly energetic works...
Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
...Died. Igor V. Kurchatov, 57, Soviet physicist who began tentative nuclear studies in the 1930s, ended up directing the fierce-driving organization that produced the Soviet atomic bomb in 1949, the hydrogen bomb in 1953; of a heart attack; in Moscow. The first Soviet atomic explosion came as a shock to the West largely because it was ignorant of the years of preparation of Kurchatov and his colleagues. Kurchatov, in fact, boasted that Russia invented the first real hydrogen bomb, since the thermonuclear device exploded earlier by the U.S. was too large to serve as a weapon...