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Fauré: La Bonne Chanson (Martial Singher, baritone, and instrumentalists from the Marlboro Music Festival; Columbia; and Gerard Souzay, baritone, accompanied by Dalton Baldwin, piano; Epic). Two new recordings of the nine songs Faure composed to the cycle of poems addressed by Verlaine to his fiancee ("One bright summer day the sun will second my joy The sky like a tall tent will wave around us"). As might be expected of the two leading interpreters of French art songs, both readings are of first quality. Singher, at his peak, is marred only occasionally by an overexpressive wobble. Souzay...
Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. The author, who describes himself as an "ambitious, abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat," rakes his stylish claws over some of his-and the white man's-color problems...
...Nobody Knows My Name, Baldwin...
Nobody Knows My Name, by James Baldwin. The author, who describes himself as an "ambitious, abnormally intelligent, and hungry black cat," rakes his stylish claws over some of his-and the white man's-color problems...
...best essays in the book is Alas, Poor Richard, a sad but enlightening account of Baldwin's unhappy friendship with the late Negro Novelist Richard Wright. Like Wright, Baldwin tried expatriating himself in Paris. After nearly nine years he decided that he could go home again; Paris had taught him that whatever the atmosphere at home, he was irrevocably an American. And of his white fellow expatriates: "They were no more at home in Europe than I was." Unlike Wright, he knew that neither of them would have found Paris "a city of refuge" if they "had not been...