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When the tiny old man walked onstage, moving crabwise around the pianos, the members of the audience at Manhattan's Town Hall rose in a spontaneous ovation. Igor Stravinsky turned to face them, ducked his head with a shy smile, the light tilting off his glasses. Then he stepped...
The four participant composers were invited by Stravinsky to appear in the concert last summer. At first they all practiced individually; Foss, the only professional pianist in the group, worked for "only about five hours," but Sessions, who rarely performs in public, found that he had to "practice very hard...
After the film clips of concentration camps with their crematoriums, Judgment built to its climax in a live scene in which an American judge (Claude Rains) faces the Nazi jurist (Paul Lukas) whom he has sentenced to life imprisonment. "How in the name of God," asks Rains, "can you ask...
Previn's hectic career is sometimes likened to Leonard Bernstein's, a comparison he modestly rejects. The record, though, is of a Jack-of-all-musical-trades, and a master of many. In ten years he has worked on something like 30 films, composing, arranging, orchestrating and conducting...
Married. Betty Field, 39, actress of stage (Dream Girl) and screen (Of Mice and Men); and Edwin J. Lukas, 55, lawyer; she for the second time (her first: Playwright Elmer Rice), he for the third; in Manhattan.