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...make a name for herself as Mèlisande. That was 40 years ago. Last week, although they had often cheered her in recital, Manhattan operagoers finally got to hear Maggie in the role that had first won her fame. It was the first time she had ever sung the full opera in the U.S. Last week, Maggie's acting was stiff in spots; the role was obviously tiring for her. But backed by a cast that ' made every word and nuance understandable, and by Jean Morel's fine conducting, she gave a performance for a sellout...
...Nanking, the government mourned. The "valiant action" at Ichuan would be "sung and wept over in history [as] ... a demonstration of the revolutionary spirit of sacrifice of the national troops. . . . Such spirit . . . will insure that Communist bandits will be exterminated...
...that the pursuit of happiness loses measure, just as optimism loses reality, if neither is aware of what Wordsworth called "the still sad music of humanity." And he gives a discipline of mind and a structure of meaning to the tragic cry of Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno: "A Miserere sung in a cathedral by a multitude tormented by destiny has as much value as a philosophy...
...Pyongyang, capital of Soviet-occupied North Korea, there was an eye-filling parade last week. Leathery, sharp-eyed Kim II Sung, puppet boss of Korean Communists, reviewed the new Soviet-supplied North Korea People's Army. Citizens were summoned to attend. They shivered in subfreezing weather, shouting "Mansyeh!" (Long Life) as infantry, mounted machine guns, mortars and field guns swept past. Fighter planes with the Taikeuk (Korean national flag) droned overhead, dropping roses. All these fascinating weapons were not of Korean manufacture. Marveled the North Korea radio : "Equipment . . . Korean people have never seen before and do not even know...
...blow to the Metropolitan Opera audience to attend an opera written in English, only to discover that you still had to read the libretto to find out what they were singing about. But after the audience sat back and just listened to the music, as they do at operas sung in Italian and German, everything went better. At the final curtain, the Metropolitan's only new opera of the year got ten enthusiastic curtain calls...