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Chairman of the conference, Chawng Lo said, was Kim II Sung, "a 32-year-old hero" who appeared "in a Red Army uniform . . . proudly wearing medals received from the Russian Government." Chawng Lo reported: "All of Kim II Sung's bills passed unopposed." Delegates had set up an Interim Peoples Committee and voted a platform which included extermination of pro-Japanese and antidemocratic elements, confiscation of land, extermination of imperialistic ideas. "Plans were drafted," Chawng Lo proclaimed, "for the benefit of the human race...
...zone skeptics called the provisional regime a "Soviet puppet," charged that Kim II Sung was an impostor trading on the name of a legendary Korean resistance leader...
Conductor Ifor Jones, 46, a Welshman who was once a Manhattan church organist, had rehearsed his choir of housewives, mill workers and college professors three times a week for their Carnegie Hall performance. His singers ranged from white-haired Mrs. George W. Halliwell, 78, who has sung in every one of the choir's 39 Masses, to gangling Hall Drummond, 17, who sang his first Mass last week. Others: Tenor Maurice Bowker, 42, a scrap inspector in the Bethlehem Steel Co.; Miss Lillian Graves, 71, a soprano who also sings tenor and bass at rehearsals to keep busy...
...Sparrow's voice, low and husky, was in character too. After she had sung, with a weary little smile, Un monsieur me suit dans la rue ("A gentleman follows me down the street"), there was a long, silent pause, then a storm of applause. The Sparrow accepted the outburst as her rightful due. For had she not been, for ten years, one of Paris' most sought-out chanteuses? Now, with les saies boches gone and postwar visitors in Paris, her songs of sacred and profane love were making her an international favorite...
...wind instruments, which he still thinks is a wonderful work but was too new for the public then. In 1930 Koussevitsky persuaded him to write a symphony for the 50th anniversary of the Boston Orchestra. Stravinsky, a devout Greek Catholic, wrote the Symphony of Psalms, with three choral movements sung in Latin. The next came in 1940, when the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrated its 50th anniversary. Says Stravinsky drily: "I am a composer of anniversaries." He composed a symphony in four parts, "in the classical way," which Chicago liked better than the critics. Last year the Philharmonic decided it also...