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More appropriate lines, say the refugees in Hong Kong, come from another Tang dynasty poet, Li Po...
Last week Enrico Mattei proudly listed his accomplishments: "We're building seven refineries in Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Poland, Sicily, the Po Valley and Switzerland. We're building our own offshore drilling rigs. One is already in the Red Sea, two in the Persian Gulf, one will start soon in a gas field in the Adriatic. Just yesterday I returned from Rumania, where I sold $5,000,000 worth of equipment...
...output is so sparse (eleven compositions in 40 years), partly because his European counterparts had electronic equipment to work with before he did, Varèse for a long time remained, by his own definition, "a musical bum." Large-scale recognition did not come until 1958, when his Poème Electronique, his only completely noninstrumental composition, thundered twelve times a day over 400 loudspeakers in a Brussels Fair pavilion designed by his friend Le Corbusier (TIME cover...
...Poème was repeated at last week's concert, along with five other works: Integrates, Ecuatorial, Offrandes, Deserts, Nocturnal. The first three were mostly intricate rhythmic exercises for conventional instruments (plus a leather cushion that was whomped with paddles), while Deserts mixed orchestral sounds with clangorous thunderclaps from the speakers. Nocturnal was the one new work on the program. Scored for soprano, men's chorus and assorted instruments, it was based on a prose poem by Anaï's Nin. None of Nocturnal was taped, but its sounds-chittering strings, night-wailing flutes-were...
...baby in question is 'Chang, named after Po Chang, the great Zen master who said, "When you are tired, sleep." David Wincham, bearded and sandaled eldest son of Sir Alfred and Lady Wincham, has picked up the stray Chinese tot, along with a dumb blonde wife and the lingo of Zen. According to the head psychiatrist at NATO, David is suffering from a "Pull to the East" that has carried him across the Channel and as far as the British embassy in Paris, where his father is serving as ambassador in the early...