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It was only partly the singer's fault that three songs of Faure did not come off quite so well. Set to poems by de Lisle, Silvestre, and Verlaine, they typify that bittersweet, almost perfumed school of French music on the border of out-and-out Impressionism. Utmost delicacy and...
Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress (Hilde Gueden, Blanche Thebom, Eugene Conley, Mack Harrell; Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orchestra conducted by the composer; Columbia, 3 LPs). When this three-act opera had its first U.S. performances last season (TIME. Feb. 23), audiences had difficulty with its baroque mannerisms and supercilious...
One night last week, a Terre Haute audience sat in attentive silence: it was seeing the first act of a Mozart opera and found it could understand almost every word. It let out a few experimental giggles at an early joke, gathered confidence as it took in the elaborate and...
Track Listener. Using principles of wartime land mine detectors, the Pennsylvania Railroad worked out an electronic device that shows up flaws at the juncture of two rail sections, at switches or through paved highway crossings. Operated by a track walker wearing earphones, the machine picks up defects by changing from...
On the Soapbox. The addition of soap operas to American culture has been under constant attack for years. To every complaint, the soapmakers have a crisply pragmatic answer: they are written as they are because that is what their audience wants. When asked what he thinks of his soap operas...