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...than a jet's-breadth above the airliner. The Queen and Prince Philip were unaware of their close call, but not so one of the copilots, who later growled: "And they had damn great iron crosses beneath their wings." From West Germany's Defense Minister Franz-Josef Strauss came "deep regrets," a promise to punish the culprits-"if, in fact, German aircraft were involved...
...overture: Von Karajan had quit over the mixed public reception to the new Salzburg Festspielhaus, whose massive design was considered by some inimical to the intimacy of Mozart operas (TIME, Aug. 8); or he had been forced out because he scanted Mozart during his tenure in favor of Richard Strauss and various modern composers. A more likely explanation was that he was just restless again...
...ambitious series of dramas and operas, CBC will present Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Richard Strauss's Elektra, Verdi's Falstaff, Chekhov's The Three Sisters, O'Neill's The Great God Brown, Henry James's The Pupil, and Anouilh's Ring Around the Moon. After meeting its legally required minimum of 55% Canadian-originated fare, the publicly owned network will fill in with a mixed bag of U.S. imports including Have Gun, Will Travel, Dennis the Menace, Danny Thomas, Red Skelton, Perry Como, Tennessee Ernie Ford, and Ed Sullivan. CBC will...
...true favorites, he added, are sentimental ones: the score from Oklahoma! (because it was the first show that he and Pat saw after moving to Washington) and Mexican folk songs (because they remind him of his honeymoon south of the border). ¶LYNDON JOHNSON, an indiscriminate admirer of Strauss waltzes, was understandably careful to ask also for such Western folk songs as Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie, Home on the Range, and Whoopie...
...hodge-podge; everything works, and everything is appropriate. It is heartening to find a composer willing to write for the voice as though it were something besides an instrument. Vocally, the score is in the Verdi-Puccini tradition; orchestrally, it recalls most frequently the sonorities of Richard Strauss, especially of Rosenkavalier. Giannini did not shy away from penning a beautiful, lush love duet for each pair of lovers. The first act has a fugal trio that can take its place with the finale fugue in Verdi's Falstaff; and the third act has a masterly vocal sextet...