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Unfortunately, having launched a top-notch series, the sponsor (Lincoln) marred it by ill-chosen sales pitches. In the midst of Beethoven's biggest score was a commercial with slick, whiny music (written by a freelance arranger named Mitch Lee). And immediately after the triumphant choral movement, while the...
In Le Marteau one recognizes Boulez' individuality; it is far from being merely French Webern played at high speed. Many listeners will be charmed by the piece--few will be charmed by Zeitmasse ("Tempo"), for woodwind quintet (with English horn substituted for horn). Where Boulez is witty and Gallic, Stockhausen...
Mr. Craft has achieved clear, accurate performances; his notes are long and helpful, though somewhat precious. A listener willing to concentrate is likely to find these pieces stimulating if he does not expect these composers to have the same aims at Beethoven. Though sophisticated, Boulez and Stockhausen are by no...
This, as every listener to Cairo's Voice of the Arabs knows, is the same high dam that the U.S. proposed, then refused to underwrite before Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. The news went over big in the Middle East. A pro-Western Beirut newspaper cried approvingly: "The Soviet...
To restore order, the Vatican radio, broadcasting from an antechamber off the Pope's bedroom, stepped up its reports. In a calm voice, the Rev. Francesco Pellegrino, S.J., projected such a sense of immediacy ("I have just come from the bedside of the Holy Father") that one listener was...