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Threni is the most recent (1958) of Stravinsky's works on records. (The latest work of all, Movements for Piano and Orchestra, received its first performance on Sunday.) The old composer, whose denunciations of the twelve-tone method used to be famous, has now written a piece derived almost entirely from on twelve-tone row. Everyone knew it was coming: the direction of the wind could be ascertained in 192, with the inversions and retrogrades of the Cantata; then real twelve-tone sections appeared in Canticum Sacrum and Agon: then came Threni ("Threnodies"), a long (for Stravinsky) setting of texts...
...Brigadier General during World War II, Reynolds was Chief of Medical Supplies. For his wartime work he received the Distinguished Service Cross. Before 1942, his career had been in business and finance...
...Museum surrounds this outstanding work with many of Picasso's graphics and watercolors. Especially beautiful is the 1918 pencil drawing, Bathers, which displays the sure control of sinuous line that characterized his so-called "Neo-Classical" period. Also of great interest is his View of Horta De Ebro, a small, lyric landscape done in 1900. The more than twenty pieces in this exhibit demonstrate the completeness and general high standards of the Fogg's acquisitions. For a university museum, one could hardly imagine a better record of connoisseurship...
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. The best biography so far of the quirky genius; a work that describes and evaluates, but does hot try to debunk...
...second abandoned any pretense that he was seriously running for the Democratic nomination. Said California's Edmund ("Pat") Brown in a West Coast paraphrase of Nelson Rockefeller's withdrawal (TIME, Jan. 4) : "To be a candidate for the presidency of the U.S. takes aggressive, active work, and they're not going to take a freshman Governor of California who has been in office a year, unless he does do some of the things that Rockefeller did. All I want to do is to take care of, to the best of my ability, the 15 million-plus people...