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RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOË, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...
...pantomime, inspired by the observations of French Entomologist Jean Henri Fabre, Roussel's impressionistic music transports the ants and the beetles into an enchanted cobwebbed garden. Andre Cluytens and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra touch other milestones of the composer's career by playing his later ballet music, Bacchus et Ariane, and the Sinfonietta for Strings, a miniature symphony in his mature classical style...
...newcomers from Europe, who consist mainly of married couples intent on finding their place under South Africa's eternal sun, and on enjoying the easy living in a land where nannies and houseboys can still be hired for $30 a month. Said an engineer from England, Philip Bacchus, who with his wife and two children arrived with 526 fellow immigrants on the liner Empress of Britain: "After all, there is trouble everywhere." But won't the new arrivals be sickened at the sight of apartheid? Predicts one observer: "After the initial revulsion, they will, like their predecessors, avert...
...Having built toward his Met debut since 1958, when he first appeared with the Baden State Theater in Karlsruhe, Thomas was mildly disappointed by the morning silence that followed his big night. But he has the consolation of two more leading roles at the Met this season (Bacchus in Ariadne and Radames in Aïda) plus opera and recording contracts that will keep him busy for two full years...
...excellent, and make you wish Cole would write a real unpretentious comedy some day. I wonder if Harvard is good for somebody as clever as Cole; it's filled his head up with a set of allusions it will take him ten years to forget. But, pedantry aside, Bacchus and his father Silenus are two really engaging comic characters you won't forget: Bacchus (who is crowned with myrtle, but wears shades and is hip) is William Keough, who is almost as good as Allan Mandel, the drunken old God who gives imitations of Mars trapped...