Word: bernard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since fabricated 30 instruments capable of hooting sepulchrally, barking savagely, trumpeting like a herd of elephants, and even producing echoing sounds of haunting beauty. Baschet dubbed his inventions Structures sonores and organized a small orchestra: his brother Bernard, Modernist Composer Jacques Lasry and several associates. The group is known in France as Structures Sonores Lasry-Baschet. It plays some Bach and some Vivaldi−but Baschet's devices are more adaptable to the works of Composer Lasry, which struggle with such titles as Coil Spring Dance and Duet for Crystals...
August 1 to August 11: George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" is being played. All tickets...
...with endless variations on the inevitable flagrant delit, or with revues and vaudevilles based on evanescent issues of the moment: the Franco-Russian Alliance, X-rays, the Parisian Metro, and the like. Others however, were constructed by comic dramatists of genuine wit and ability, humorists like Georges Feydeau, Tristan Bernard and Georges Courteline. If such authors may never be credited with bringing about any major revolutions in the French (or World) theatre, they were, all the same, uncontested experts in the no less noble endeavor of showing their contemporaries the laughable side of a life too often taken too seriously...
Cambridge, Mass., Loeb Drama Center: Captain Brassbound's Conversion, a lesser comedy by Bernard Shaw, sends one of his typical, indomitable heroines and a very domitable romantic rebel on a Shavian Road to Morocco...
August 1 to August 11: George Bernard Shaw's "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" will be performed. All tickets...