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...André Malraux, the writer and intellectual who served as De Gaulle's Minister of Culture, called him "a man of the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow." Like most crusaders, De Gaulle was extraordinarily farsighted but sometimes, maddeningly, he deliberately seemed to narrow his vision. From the day he proclaimed a French government in exile during World War II, his imperious manner and fragile sensibilities frequently infuriated his nation's closest allies. In a vain effort to force French leadership on Europe, he twice vetoed Britain's entry into the Continent's first...
Last week Judge André Rouanet de Vigne-Lavit rejected Portnoy's request for a court order to change the name of Roth's hero, but he did suggest that Armand's next step might be to seek damages. Portnoy has not yet decided whether to pursue the action...
Photographers swarmed around Mia Farrow as her glamorous André Previn conducted the Los Angeles Philharmonic and Jack Benny played Mendelssohn over the phone. Still, Isaac Stern more than held his own at his 50th birthday celebration. His rendition of the Brahms violin concerto was the hit of a gala at the Hollywood Bowl. At supper afterward, his observations ranged from philosophy ("Music is more important than musicians. The music goes on and on. All we can do is serve it honestly") to a pun inspired by Ogden Nash ("I leave no tone unSterned...
...Born. To Andrés Segovia, 76, classical guitarist, and Emilia Segovia, 31, his former pupil and wife of eight years: their first son, Carlos Andrés; in London...
...intensely did Tchaikovsky throw himself into composition that when he died at the age of 53 he had produced a total of 325 hours of music. For The Lonely Heart, Composer-Conductor André Previn drew heavily upon that reserve-and it is pure Tchaikovsky. Dimitri used what he calls "Tchaikovsky's basic architecture"-with embellishments by Tiomkin. Still, the score is essentially Tchaikovsky-so much so that Dimitri, with unwonted modesty, lists himself in the credits as "adapter," not "composer...