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...SUNG...
...alleged Communist collaborators at Shinwon, a village 40 miles southwest of Taegu. The legalized massacre was hushed up for a month, then a National Assembly committee investigated. Last week, President Syngman Rhee published the committee's report, took appropriate action. He fired his Minister of Defense, Sihn Sung Mo, Home Affairs, Chough Byong Ok, and Justice, Kim Jeum Yin, for their "responsibility" in the affair...
...Badioli, bass; Giulietta Simionato, mezzo-soprano; Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Antonio Cas-sinelli, bass; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Barber fans, used to hearing Rosina's arias trilled airily by a coy soprano, will be surprised to hear the role sung here by a more mature-sounding mezzo - as Rossini wrote it. Mezzo Simionato brings it off beautifully; so does Baritone Taddei as Figaro. Conductor Previtali keeps it sparkling throughout. Recording: excellent...
Berg developed his own unique "song-speech," with notes at definite pitches which are neither exactly sung nor spoken. But he could write beautiful melody too, most notably the lovely lullaby Marie sings to her child. Overall, Wozzeck has a sardonic, contorted quality, but one that is clearly the work of a controlled and powerful hand...
...Sung, Communism's titular leader of North Korea, has been out of the news for months. Last week he popped up with a couple of choice quotes broadcast by Radio Peking: 1) the war, said Kim, is "turning favorably" for the Reds, who will ultimately "drive the aggressors out of Korea"; 2) when the U.N. forces retreated from North Korea last year, the Reds, said Kim, found the bodies of 150 children in an icy cave. Kim supplied details : "After the Americans drove them in and bolted the door, these children were starved and frozen to death. Practically...