Word: aix
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pianist Artur Rubinstein. Doing the festival rounds even faster than the fleetest-footed music tourist will be a gaggle of other big-name artists. The speed and distance record probably goes to famed German Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, who will dash between Scandinavia (Helsinki, Bergen), Switzerland (Lucerne), Belgium (Ostend), France (Aix and Besanqon) and Spain (Granada). Almost as agile will be the U.S.'s own great Philadelphia Orchestra, whose stops will include Lugano, Vienna, Bordeaux, Strasbourg, Stockholm, Helsinki...
...army of tourists Europe has some outstanding attractions in addition to such old standbys as Notre Dame Cathedral, the Eiffel Tower (1,301,152 visitors last year), the Prades Music Festival (July 2-20). France has the Paris International Trade Fair (May 14-30), an international dance festival at Aix-les-Bains (July 23-Aug. 7). Italy offers the International Music Festival at Taormina (June 1-10), the Turin Sports Exhibition (May 2 5-June 19), Rome's Feast of St. Peter (June 29), Florence's May music festival, the Venice Regatta (Sept. 4), lavish, outdoor opera...
Although he journeyed often to Paris and other parts of France seeking subject material for his inspired brush, Painter Paul Cézanne always returned to his home town of Aix-en-Provence. He seemed to thrive best in the sunny, sleepy atmosphere of Provence, with its sloping vineyards bathed in Mediterranean light and its vistas of baked mountains seen though cool green pines. He liked to hire a carriage and ride out to a spot on the road south from Aix where the view of Mount Sainte-Victoire especially appealed to him. There, sitting beneath a pine tree...
...four years before his death, Cézanne built a studio on the Chemin des Lauves, half a mile noth of Aix, commanding a fine view of the town and the surrounding mountains. Cézanne painted most of his last pictures in this studio. This week Cézanne's old studio, purchased and restored by an international committee, was formally opened as a museum and memorial to the French Master...
...French postal strike (see FOREIGN NEWS), which set communications in France back to the 17th century, was too much for the Aga Khan, who had come to Aix-les-Bains for a peaceful fortnight. He left town in a huff (actually, in a green Rolls Royce with red leather upholstery) and headed for the 20th century in Lausanne. Switzerland, followed by his chauffeur, maid and luggage in a second car. "The Aga Khan," it was explained, "receives and sends many letters and needs to make frequent phone calls abroad...