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THE OBSERVER, SUNDAY, iJUNEJS I960 25 AT THE FILMS MUSIC AND MUSICIANS I 1 The Terrible Children Minsscri T. B. CSE. pickets i-jaBdi'lsu iotoonstloo Amsl --Festival HsB Bos Office (Waterloo 3191 Box OQoi opens I JO pja. Simdartff-lxwidog.

and orail tames. TUESDAY Siraiass By C. A. Lejeiihe survive, disperse and grow, no matter what the cost to humankind. You won't be able they "If von' didn't suffer from emotions, you could be- ai the cool amplitude, of the Govern powerful rweaTn dot's palace: V- 'r oiit has to-decide-emcr to grbti -The very tfie-sintering from rrMoc3, or prove rjalaicomipts; jits.

TO-MOEBOW St SUNE- of Itoi iST PAU'iCA'lTODRAI, OrrlaLi Oirraot i-m4i BO WEB i.Mahjiy rjusa sSCooccii stren Sonet (orrOe Cboftncri: Mscfrtnh; Kins sbsll fricTllAKOEL S.TtlXElTLtt., iw. witmore w.l. ansi nun ft 3 Gt wir.tMMtr 4t.Wasssn MASS IN 8 THE vBAGH XHOIR BlUJHAZZAA'SEAkrWalton ANN BOWIJAIi stvT-SJAKBT BAKER iaOIJSH HEavEY ALAN Js'. UGlrT MUSIC FESTIVAL 1960 sat. next.

June Is, at uo u. MUSICtfFQR- YOU B.B.C CONt-BRTORCHESTRA B3.C. SITjpiO CHOIR Cot-dacniri iVTLtl-r TAUSKY HnL rrott Qnuuuli ycotnts-t (bBOurd Fan pros, for last sad last tmncu on tnlr, -iram nau- akius. Tleaws 3f- 1 16. til-.

13S. u.iHwraijOTcy are. lts diScs-H tb'f-saggesfT' until and their deadfia? rigtd aniform- ity, the compubiojj ofrtnught have been a ridiculous ancl rnakis shift little pfctffoe. Villaje of Damned11 is not ki 'any wwV at dassic toajWdtifXUU bat rijkir vuy jiiii, ana i noun a ueorse Tt-iZ'lJ -Sanders has ever let'himself goW MpreJtHS. deattL.

LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INTERNATIONAL SERIES la assocbltoa milh tbe Am Cornell oC Great Britain and JUNE 14 ScraTtauoT Coocerdao No. 2 Id rentoien Coacetto in D. Dai Med Von Der Erde Mahler AAFJE iHEYNIS MURRAY DICKIE DORATI 76. IDA. I5(-, SIA: TUESTJAV Oveuuie, Egaeat --'Hgrj'i'p- The mtmk' of Dfsdemonai played by the Italian soprano Luisa Mwagiiano, who replaces Sena Jurinac in tke current, revival 'of VerdTs Covent Garden.

STOKOWSKi H.KJ-en BUS SSOIU 1- LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA. 10-. 11.. AH otters sola. 1 1 Mwafinrhl: S.

A. GoUkatr Lt Gongs, Caracas Stravinsky ROYAIi Hopoer. THUKSDAY JUNJ5 U. st 7J. deep into a part.

He acts as if he Ji? indomitable automate, who are still young enough to prrt their fate into btuuhrr, may tT, irui alone in this opmlon, but I haven't been so haunted hy a play about uhi uiwauaqc posnasKJU -Once saw "The- Innocents." the version of Henry James's "Turn ot rne Screw. I ui nuiNUbL, who has made i. -1 wwcu acre KeDBDUC of Sin (Berkeley) is One of the screen's most formidable directors, it never does to underrate him. He has a piercing eye and the strength of fanaticism. His work is never trivial, often briHiant, and always wrathful.

Sharpset against the Establishment everywhere, it is deliberately designed to shock to wrench an audience into realisation of man's brutality to man. Republic of Sin is a story of political intrigue and assassination on a small island off the coast of South America. The chief feature of the island is a prison, and JAZZPimHARMQNIC SCIENCE fictibn. which has rgely replaced all Mother forms of fantasy in our tune, is a hard thing to bring to the screen with the right mixture ot amazement and Things from Another World are three a penny, most grown-up people have decided to leave science fiction to their juniors. On the whole, this seems a wise rule.

But there are excep-t'ons. Laa week, for instance, a Jaunting oddity turned up called yfflaee of the Damned (Rite. director Walter Rilla). Written and handled with a considerable amount of delicacy, it may possibly appeal more to the adults Uian the adolescents, and the further you have moved away from fantasy the more you will understand its chili. The film is based on a good book by John Wyndham called The Midwich Cuckoos." It is a modest British film, with something of the television drama style, which has the merit of an immediately arresting start One summer day, in the tiny English village of Midwich, every living creature is suddenly struck down unconscious.

The flesk. fe telephone clerk across her switchboard, the cows lie crumpled in the fields, the dogs stretch out quite silenL For hours the village is cut off from the world. The Army and police, alerted, find themselves up against a wall of gas. Approach is impossible from the air. After a time, Midwich recovers from its stupor.

No harm seems to have been done until a few months later, when it is discovered that all the women of childbearing age are pregnant THIS is bad enough, but worse is still to come. The Oayout Children, as they are later to be called, are fine babies, superfine babies. There are six boys and six girls. But they are all alike. They have the same flaxen hair, the same inscrutably wise look, the same strangely compelling eyes.

Before they are a year old. they are able to communicate telepathic- ally with one another, and force their parents to do their bidding, At three, they have the intellects of adults. At nine, they seem to have acquired a supernatural unanimity. They represent one mind raised to the twelfth power. The Children are not only terrible, but logical.

Gravely they explain to the physicist (George Sanders) who teaches them, or rather guides them in the way they want to go, that they are the only ones of meir species left on earth. (Others were born in various continents on the same day, but in one way or another they nave been obliterated I So it is their duly to From Edmund Trace JOHNNY DANKWORTH HIS ORCHESTRA LONDON PHILHARMONIC. ORCHESTRA HUGO RIGNOLTJ cotinictoi; SERGIO. FIOREKTINO. solo piatto.

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Geiraxd tihpe) -is- braving Tfntil idisni' when he, aitnvesbtit palace 'life; awl his- 6tamintt. mj He looks wasted, and his berfornv charming, fa drawn tur Wra-" terself wiffi eratic'; of a Mexican; r. jT- -T? jvuja. jcaa oc-nrats prays otarpja with exactly the right of cruelty and refinement Republic of Sin is by no means Hunuel's best film. Too'much of his sensual vein has seeped into the argument.

But it is not to be ignored "i an astounding mm an astounding nun called Rich, Young and Deadly (Rialto, director Charles Haas) Mickey Rooney comes back from building dams in Pakistan to find ont how his son died at an American military academy. Baulked at every turn, he finally discovers that the academy is en asylum for rich juvenile delinquents, and that a good boy has a slim chance to survive there. Presumably the American) know their own business, but to my mind this is a mad piece of propaganda to let loose on foreign audiences. Fortunately the acting is in no way remarkable, so possibly hush-hush will take it through. Bergsma with feline French abandon.

Some of the steps could do with second thoughts to avoid accusations of obviousness Powell has a feeling for the grotesque which he could indulge in. But the theatricality and gusto of this unpretentious morsel (to musk of Johana and Josef Strauss) should cany it into somebody's repertoire. A bit of Petit larceny, perhaps, but none the worse for that Of the other items, the most enjoyable were Malcolm Goddard's TV-style Figurations, and Clover Roope's "Sleight of Hand," which revealed Monica Mason as that rare bird, a dramatic dancer. Now let's hope for a ballet to make us sit up. nfnrm TT uPeSfal, aWe t0 "J1 the latest everung of the Sunday Ballet Club, given this time at the Lyric Theatre, was also one of its best Apart from the canned music, which had a doleful ring, the manner in which the menu was dished up was highly -professional it only remained to find something to serve.

This was duly done, in the shape of One in Five," a little romp, light as a piece of Viennese pastry, by Ray PowelL In' front of one of those sets which consist of showing the props baclcstace. four clowns fool around with a clowness -a deliriously long-legged, witty, elegant apparition danced by Deanne Srmcbonr No. 3 to AIlBERT HALL BECOBDS Pium A13ERT 'llAU, OfnWORATflOiM NEXT MOM. WEEK, at 7 JO KENWOOD LAKESIDE CONCERTS Saturday next. June 25 BJ PHDJ1ARM0NIA ORCHESTRA OMda-cto-r ScaakT Pope Orerture Flyloa Dutchman Two Syrnrthonlc (Grt CaoriedD ItaUen: Snaoboug lo minor (Ctar Fraackl.

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choice, and more ao.hbwthaa in tte thirties, wlrtnCapriccib.iSo idealhrf suited to Glyndeouroerhady to be.writ-.teiuMThe disadvantages are clear. "-Dor Rosenkavalier ienrrA far orchestra' than Glyndeboume can, accommodate. Fumermbre, the volunve of sound produced even by a ieuuwu uiuic-htb is too mucn ror a small auditorium with- acoustics brilliant to 'the point of harshness. Thus at Olyndebourne the score inevitably lacks silky opulence that is one of its essential charms. BTJT if no entrancuig cumulus clouds Of Sehlaaoben rise out of the orchestral' pit, much more is sained' at Glyndeboume than I had dared to hope.

For while doe side of "Der Roscnkavalier is large in and rumbustious, ita.other. ana pernapi essennah lace -is intimate. Sae-spun and introspective. iThis is ictilarly true of Hof- Ithal's contri bilti on. for the deli.

cate and subtle psychological delineation that distjinsBitshes his libretto eidendsrm'uch farther than, the central figure of me MarschaUtn. Oktavian, Ocha, Sophie and even Faninal are all observed with precision and tenderness. It is at point that the Glyndeboume production comes into its own. There are, no great voices on the stage, but since the war I can recall no production outside Vienna in which these five characters have appeared so fully rounded or played with such urtderslandutg and affec- uon. in -uer KosentavaUcr that counts for a great deal, and indeed Can Ebert's swansone at Olvnrfe- bourne stands as one of his finest achievements.

TXERE his passion for detail, XX which in other wottcs often proved so distracting, is well matched to Strauss's score as well as Hof-matinsthal's text. In his production. for instance, OktavUn'a whispered conversation with the Italians for once clearly establishes how the third act follows out of the second and the moment at the end of the opera, where Oktavian seizes the hand of Marie Theres' as she leaves on Faninal's arm, kisses it, and then stands with his own hand 'held out, trance-like, for one final moment gripped by the spell of the past before turning to the future, is unforgettably moving. Regine Crespin's Feldmarschallin is exactly right in appearance: a pretty woman on whom the amplitude of middle years is falling fast. She sings with great sweetness, warmth and humanity, failing only to sustain tension between (he phrases of her monologues, and lacking perhaps' something of the woman's unconscious dignity even in her most relaxed moments.

Occasionally Mme Crespin suggests a Colette-like figure of la belle ipoque rather: than the aristocratic Vienna of Maria-Theresa. But she is a real and deeply touching person, and that is the main thing, AS Oktavian, Regina Sarfaty treads her ambisexual tightrope with remarkable discretion and still, and, apart from an occasional exposed high note, her' singing is extremely accomplished and musical. Armeliese Rothenberger's Sophie is hardly less successful. Her voice is slight, but she, too, plays and sings with exceptional accomplishment, and draws a delicate portrait of a young girl at once ingenuous and spirited. Oscar Czerwcnka lacks variety of voice but he plays Ochs with an engagingly unforced, sense of comedy and his handling of the Baron's impudent Quid pro quo is masterly.

Willy Ferenz is a -most plausible Faninal. On Thursday Leopold Ludwig did not secure a successful balance of voices in the trio, but his reading is well to the text, and immensely lively; The R.P.O: played for him with fine precision and fire, and the revelation of so much exquisite woodwind, detail was some compensation for an inevitable lack of rich string tone. But it is surety high time that Glyndeboume gave us Capriccio." If they baulk at English, let, them issue a bilingual text and do in German. But, one way or another, they should do it A performance of Handcl'k Samson in memory of the Covent Garden baritone David Allen will be given at 3 p.m. to-day at All Souls', Place, W.I.

Among the soloists will be Joan Sutherland, John onlpn and Robert Bon-nan. reel; 35, Grand Hotel; 7 JO, Letter from America 735, The Way of Life g.25. The Week's Good Cause; 8 JO, The Return of the Native 93, Big Ben Minute and News; t.IS, People To-day; 935, Nocturne: 10.35, "Poor 1030, The Epilogue: 113, News 113, app. Music at Night. LIGHT fl.500 247 m-V C35, Greenwich Time Signal and Shipping Forecast 35, Your Holiday Weather; J3, Big Ben and Silver Chords; 9J9, News Summary followed by A Sequence 35, The Archers 10 JO, Easy Beat; 1L0, Twenty Questions 1L50, People's Service 1135, Shlppihs JForecast; 113, Family Favourites 105, The Billy Cotton Band Show; 135.

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"It is hardly fair to discuss the new work by Boulej. ra. setoo pli, since some of the music had been completed only on the mornins of the while some, was darkly rumoured, was improvised at the concert; nobody can be sure that what we heard was definitive. Boulez has also reworked and added to the MaUarme ImprovlsarJoni that have already been heard, so that the work is now in five movements. I was very perplexed by a lengthy orches- iroi rarussimo or me utmost violence' in tms sort of music, where every part ts- a solo part, one would suppose that everything is important i toe eomposer to be neard Yet though one could see violins beinz rjluekeil a and a mandolin beins strummed.

ywis onen impassible to hear them. How precisely have such instrumental effects been calculated? was no doubt about the aural precision of Aprtsludes, an orchestral work by Niccol6 CasHalioni. This was one of thelughlights of the festival. Unlike the Boulez and Stock-hausen eternities, it was admirably concise and, particularly in the last of Its four fragmentary movements, it achieved an evocative shimmer of harps, bells, vibraphone, violin harmonics, and flutter-tongued flutes, that entirely justified the composer's central preoccupation with instrumental timbres. Other moderately impressive pieces have been Karel Husa's Poem for viola and orchestra, a sparely written noire, superbly played by Ulnch Koch; the too-protracted but vividly: scored Spectra by Gurither Schuller; and a terse" and; sharp-edited, though emotionally rather re-pellent piece by Berio, Qnademl per on4es UVV rpHE rnc dislbx raccc of X.

the week haitibeen tbe work of 2f. Moretaen4 fOGptaiao Bod orchestra, duced, t. Margritf WeberV-ahd, the by Scrirnidi-Isawsedt- sv- has used a se-irietlKolicrmi-tlon, out-tAeretfaenurnolance between worfc'andiariycoe ielse's ends. For, -like Schoenberg and Webem, Stravinsky uses serial methods not as a hollow intellectual device but as a means of speaking ctearty and expresaiveiy. His manner of construction remains as personal as the sound of bis orchestra, and the result is a work which moves forward and is beautiful to listen to, which is brief yet "-dghly concentrated, which at every (point reveals a master who has bofla a precise and original ear and a fastidrous mind to direct his ear.

There are five very brief movements scored for, the smallish orchestra which excludes horns and percussion. The rhythmic structure is highly elaborate anf the -instrumental lay-out is of chamber-music delicacy. The total effect is austere, yet invigorating. The yAsdom of great age and experience speaks through this music but there is no suggestion of relaxed mellowness: on the contrary, the music is taut -and has something of the devotional intensity of Threni." The only pity is that Stravinsky's clarity, his sense of proportion, and bis ear for new and beautiful sounds, no longer seem to be the aim of younger For you glowing colour slides that come up big and brilliant WIG MORE HALL, TO-MORROW at 7J0. ROSTRUM preaeu a CHERUBIM tsctateatry uawiL Elizabeth David FRETWELL WARD laL.

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KenesL COLOGNE. June 18 HATEVER one mav think of the programme selection for the thirtv- fourth Festival of the International Society for Contemporary Music, one must applaud the efficiency of its organisation. Four orchestras three of them from the leading German radio stations a diverse array of instrumental ensembles and a formidable list of talented soloists had been assembled with a minimum of fuss and had clearly been rehearsed with scrupulous care. The only thing that seems to be lacking is the music Inevitably there are bad piece' so unconvincing, so unskilful that one wonders what pleasure the composers can have taken in writing them. But the chief harard in this commando or contemporary music has been sheer incomprehensibility, in- eotitude, insignificant ideas, a lack of creative energy can all.

more or less, be detected and defined. What totally vanquishes the bravest listener is music which simply does not speak to him. which seems to make no sense. rilHE paradox here that while many of the composers in their programme notes show dieraselves preoccupied wtth formal problems, they do not achieve the result that formal organisation should aim a1 the clarification of the composer's idea. And.

often one cannot help suspecting that there is no idea that the formal Mnicture is a self-conscious sophisticated game that the composer-is pkiyins with himself and in which the listener cannot participate because the rules have not been eijriained. And, one must add, it wouldn't always be enough even if rhey were ejt-pfained not by structural organisation atone does music hve. On expects much modem music to be part of a minority culture; but Stockhansen's Kontakte seems to me to represent a solo culture. This was far the most bizarre of the festival offerings a work for piano, a large ooHectiDn of percussion instruments ana electronic sounds, relayed through four groups of loudspeakers ranged about the hall; it was a thirty-five-rntnute assault upon ears and nerves. Of course the gongs, bells, drums, maracas and the rest of the now" fashionable battery yielded occasional fascinating patterns of sound.

So did the elechxmic effects for a short tithe. But these effects were only separately interesting: I was quite unable to apprehend the shape of the piece or the composer's purpose in creating it One criticism seems valid the piece was incredibly long-winded and many of the sound effects were naive and, despite the science fiction apparatus, banal and often repetitive. When Schoenbers made his first atonal experiments he wrote short but densely pocked pieces: there is a moral in this for Stockhausen. A LARGE proportion of the I.S.C.M. composers clatm to use 1 serial methods the fashionable kind of serialisation is no longer total but free," it now appears but there is also a widespread concern with Instrumental colour, apparently for its own sake.

Mauricio Kagel's Anagrams employs four singers, a woodwind trio, harps (which are occasionally hit with soft drumsticks), pianos, celesta and percussion, and a speaking chorus which, whistling, lisping, choking, screaming and almost epilepticaUV shuddering, pro- TO-DAY'S TELEVISION VIM. Weather followed bv Farming; LJ Sul I Sol: LJO, Prynhawn Fai: 2j0, The Phil Silvers Show; US, "Never a Dull Moment UO, Spy-Catcher 4.20, News from the Zoos; 4.45, Sooty the Fireman SJB, St. 5J0, All Your Own; 6JL Sunday Special; CIO, News and Weather; 6.15, The Herdsmen's Service; 73, Meeting Point; 7.25, News; 7 JO, The Perry Como Music Hall; JO. The Insect Play 9 .50. News '55, Appeal; 19 A Monitor; 10.45, Music with Max.

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(Scortiih). JL15. Fum festi 1 CHELTENHAM FESTIVAL of British Contemporary MUSIC 3-15 JULY First performance of 21 British works: London Symphony Orchestra Hail Orchestra Birmingham Symphony Orchestra B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra-New Music Ensemble Melos Ensemble, etc. Festival folder from Town Hall, Cheltenham.

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The Old 'Vlo Company, in a Shakespearean nrodocaon. Gate Theatres Sept. Lord Ixmaford Producttons. '-it ideal HuibtauT' by osear TOWe. Gaiety Tkesares 12-14th- Sept.

Itablln Festival Coxasmxxr present aiohflan McKtmna in fiatbot ot ma wisiuui waras" by J. hi. Synce. Sept. Oyrll Cuaaalc Prodactdona.

World premiere of "rtm -nscxp DooiEr" a new play by Walter Mackea. lBStis flepr, Hilton EdrganlsfMtrhaal CDQbUn Ostts '-Tbeatn PTOdttcaona. A recital by MlcheaJ HaoUammolr "The brtpattanat of Being Oscar." Pike Theatre: U-iath Sept An adaptation from Tolstoy's novel "TteErcuhxr Sonata" by Roderick Lovell and Hannah Watt; Direction by Alan Btrrrpaon. Theatre Royal: u-ztth Sept. International Variety, twice nlshtly.

Gas Company, Dsm Laoire: n-ath Sept. Orion Productions praest Worid Premiere of "The Highest House on the Mountain" by John B. Keana. Eblatus Theatre: Dabim Olobe Theatre Company On association with Llfley Theatre Prodnctlons). ia-17th Be'Worid Premiere at "masmtta, wr raar" by o.

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