The War Lover and Britten Requiem in war’s shadow
In a reflective critique the author weighs war's appeal and its moral cost, contrasting soldiers who revel in combat with those who abhor it. Benjamin Britten's War Requiem draws mixed response, though the writer finds the work deeply powerful musically and emotionally, especially in its portrayal of loss and a nation’s trauma. The piece acknowledges premiere impacts, debates jazz influence, and argues Britten's craft and national poetry justify a lasting place in modern music.
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John Hersey
Benjamin Britten
Tanglewood
America
Britten
St. Michael's Cathedral
Coventry
England
Broadway hits invade Melbourne stages in Australia
Melbourne reports an influx of recent Broadway productions. How To Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Camelot, and Mary, Mary are planned. Sail Away has also been presented recently.
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Melbourne
Australia
Forum
John Koch at the Berkshire Museum Art Review
Sushil Mukherize criticizes John Koch at the Berkshire Museum for a drab, overly meticulous, realist show. He finds Koch's paintings rote and lifeless, lacking enduring impact, and contrasts them unfavorably with Clemens Kalischer's more dynamic photography in the same gallery.
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Art Review
John Koch
The
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
Koch
Mr. Koch
Tam
Clemens Kalischer
Mr. Kalischer
String Symposium Planned At Tanglewood This Week
The Berkshire Music Center at Tanglewood hosts a two day String Symposium Sunday and Monday with 13 leading string players and teachers. Richard Burgin and Joseph Silverstein lead sessions on technique curriculum and teaching music. Participants include Max Aronoff Anshel Brusilow Stuart Canin Rafael Druian Broadus Earle Josef Gingold Sidney Martha Joseph Knitzer Louis Krasner Than Salzman Samuel Gardner Paul Siassaviten Henry Siegl and others.
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Berkshire Music Center
Advanced Study of Music
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Tanglewood
The
Music Center
Richard Burgin
Joseph Silverstein
Chamber Music
Burgin
Silverstein
Max Aronoff
New School of Music
Philadelphia
Anshel Brusilow
Phileadelphia Orchestra
Stuart Canin
Conservatory of Music
Oberlin Cottage
Rafael Druian
Cleveland Symphony Orchestra
Broadus Earle
School of
Yale University
Josef Gingold
School of Mxusic
Univeversity of
Indiana
Sidney Marth
Carnegie Institute of Technology
Pittsburgh
Joseph Knitzer
Eastman School of Music
University of Rochester
Louis
Krasner
Dept. of
University of Syracuse
Than Salzman
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
Samuel Gardner
Paul Siassaviten
Detray University
Chicago
Henry Siegl
Seattle! Symphony Orchestra
Less Bad Luck Sheinwold on Bridge:42,04 k
A bridge column discusses luck versus poor play with a famous hand from a tournament. It recounts players misdiscarding on a dummy and a queen of spades drop, illustrating how mismanagement can feel like bad luck and how expert play can overturn expectations. The piece includes a bidding excerpt and a sample hand analysis.
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Sheinwold
Pate
Harry Fishbein
Special Bus For Cherry Orchard Show From South Berkshire
A chartered bus will serve residents of South Berkshire to attend the 5 pm Saturday performance of Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard at Williams Town Summer Theater. The bus departs at 3 45 from the Lee formation back with stops at Curtis Hotel Lenox and Pittsfield bus terminal. Reservations are via the Adams Memorial Theater box office in Williamstown.
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South Berkshire
Chekov
Williamstown
John Calhoun
Lee
Curtis Hotel
Lenox
Pittsfield
Adams Memorial Theater
Mwg-Ar
Englend
Rothers
Shakespeare
Information South
Lesox
Piltstie—Price
Terie
Program Set For Concert In Cummington
Greenwood Music Camp will present its 30th annual program at the village school house in Cummington on Sunday afternoon at 3 30. The program will include Ravel Tombeau de Couperin J C Bach Sinfonia and Beethoven Second Symphony. The public is cordially invited.
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Greenwood Music Camp
Cummington
Ravel
Cindy Carel Signs Long Term Pact After Gidget Goes to Rome
Hollywood gossip notes say 18 year old Cindy Carel landed a long term contract with Calum Dia Pictures. The signing followed her first film role in Gidget Goes to Rome.
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Hollywood
UPI
Gidget
Rome
Movie Timetable Summaries for Multiple Theaters
Capitol shows Summer Magic at 12:36 and 3:15 cinema with short subjects at 2:15 and 5:05, plus 7:43. Little Ctherma offers short subjects at 8:15 then This Sporting Life at 6:20. Palace schedules Thie Slave at 19:45, 4:05, 7:20 and Flipper at 2:33, 5:40, 9:10. Union Square presents The Great Escape at 3:35, 4:00, 8:30 and Wonderful New York at 1:15, 4:40, 5:05. Berkshire Drive-In runs Mary Had a Little at 8:15 and The Great Escape at 10:00. Pittsfield Drive-In features David and Lisa at 8:20 and Beloved In fidel at 10:00. Sunset Drive-In offers Cartoons and short subjects at 8:30 and 5a Days at Peking at 9:20.
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Capitol
Union Square
New York
Berkshire Drive-In
Mary
Pittsfield Drive-In
David and
Lisa
Peking
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Mac Morgan
Jim Oyster
Eleanor Wilson
Little Mary
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J. T. Owens
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Raghel Roberts
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Queen James Garner
Richard Atienborough
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Clemens Kulischer
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