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...Bizet: Carmen (Rise Stevens, Nadine Conner, Raoul Jobin and Robert Weede, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, George Sebastian conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A pedestrian presentation, in which the best efforts are Stevens' Habanera and Baritone Robert Weede's bully Toreador Song. Performance: fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, May 13, 1946 | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

...Bizet: Symphony in C Major (Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 7 sides). The composer of Carmen was 17 when he wrote his only symphony, and obviously a student of Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven and Rossini, all of whom have their innings in the score. Performance: fair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Mar. 4, 1946 | 3/4/1946 | See Source »

...Bizet: Music from Carmen (New York City Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 8 sides...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Nov. 5, 1945 | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

...Embassy on the Place de la Concorde had not yet been reopened. But Janitor Pierre Bizet, who had stayed on during the entire German occupation, was ready to sweep its parquet floors and polish its crystal chandeliers. In the speculation as to the new U.S. Ambassador to France, current guesses gave the job to able Norman Armour, now marking time in Washington since his recall from Argentina (TIME, July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.S. At War: Ambassador to Germany? | 9/11/1944 | See Source »

...Turtle), just once out of the second drawer (Over 21). Otherwise it was mostly out of a musty old trunk in the attic. There was not one really good farce, fantasy, thriller. Musicals made the season's biggest splash, but their finest sounds were familiar ones: the brilliant Bizet music in the all-Negro Carmen Jones, the lovely Lehar waltzes of The Merry Widow. Possibly barring One Touch of Venus, musicomedy failed to produce a single decent score, and nowhere produced even a halfway decent book. The net result was an unprecedented string of fancy-figure flops-My Dear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Late Unlamented | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

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