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...Irish rebellion against England from 1916 to 1922, a struggle that W. B. Yeats said had "a terrible beauty." The beauty is here reborn in the narration of Charles Kuralt, in the memories of the rebellion's survivors, and in the ballads of the time and the place, sung by the Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem...
...cantatas "Der Herr denket an uns" (BWV 196), "Ich bin ein guter Hirt" (BWV 85), "Ihr Menschen, Ruehmet Gottes Liebe" (BWV 167), and the motet "Komm, Jesu, komm" (BWV 229) elegantly and unpretentiously. They produced a full but never heavy sound; the chorus's long threads of melody were sung smoothly and sensitively; the diction was inpeccable. Collins's phrasing and dynamics avoided the spectacular, but could be striking on occasion through their subtlety. He chose to take the final cadence of "Der Herr denket" simply and quietly, rather than grandly and pompously; as a result, this cadence...
...APPELLE BARBRA (Columbia). Rue Streisand runs into Place Pigalle on her latest disk, which takes its flavor from an assortment of French songs (Autumn Leaves, Clopln dopant) arranged by Michael Legrand and sung, partly in English partly in French, by the Berlitz bombe. It may be gout americain, but it is still champagne...
...such manager interviewed by Richman is Wu Tsung-i, who with his family once owned 30% of the Sung Sing Textile Corp.'s nine Shanghai mills. Wu now draws a $160-a-month salary as a top Sung Sing manager. Because his holdings were valued at $640,000 when Sung Sing went into "joint ownership" with Peking twelve years ago, he has also been receiving $32,000 a year in dividends...
When Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's dour saga of a doomed fisherman, was first produced at the Metropolitan Opera in 1948, one patron was so outraged that he spat through the box-office window. Badly sung, unimaginatively staged, poorly conducted, the opera sank with barely a ripple...