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Varsity men are Douglas Fitchen, Forand, James Harrison, David Kenney, John Livingston, William Pierskalla, Anthony Provenzano, Walton Rawls, and Steve Schneider...
Another of our London correspondents, Joan Bruce, spent Tuesday working on two music stories. One was on Sir William Walton's first opera. Troilus and Cressida (see Music). She was digging up background on the composer and his music so that the writer in New York would have this information before the premiere in Covent Garden. This done, she got ready to go to Leicestershire to track down a lead on a story that looked like a good bet for TIME'S Music section in the future...
After five years' toil, Britain's famed Sir William Walton, 52, last week unveiled his first opera, Troihis and Cressida, at London's Covent Garden. The melodramatic plot (of amorous scheming and betrayal in ancient Troy) was lusty, but the heavily sweet music resembled Walton's lyrical Viola Concerto more than his uproarious Belshazzar's Feast. The London Times called it "a great tragic opera," and the Daily Express hailed "the proudest hour for British music since the premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes." Sir William made his own evaluation...
...Walton: Viola Concerto (William Primrose; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Columbia). A work which, after Façade, is William Walton's most renowned, makes its tardy LP debut (it was written in 1929). Although its texture is slightly richer than modern tastes approve, this is a strong composition, ranging from pensive to jazzy to robust...
...Future. This is not the "China Lobby" talking, but a gentle missionary who tries hard to avoid recriminations. Yet, Dr. Stuart recalls how, on his return to the U.S. in 1949, Walton Butterworth director of the Office of Far Eastern Affairs, and other State Department pros shushed Stuart, screened him from the press and censored his speeches...