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...first week as France's 23rd Premier since World War II, and its youngest Premier since 1883,* ambitious Maurice Bourèes-Maunoury, 42, looked as though he might be bounced out of office. He approached his first vote of confidence after doling out so many jobs-splitting portfolios two ways-that his Cabinet became a 45-man team, biggest in French history. But he still had to water down his demand for higher taxes before the Deputies would give him a chance. In the end the specter that haunts his government, and would probably bring him down...
...Bourèes-Maunoury, a Resistance hero, is the center of the tough and unyielding French position on Algeria. So far, it is the dominant one in French politics. But more and more Frenchmen are beginning to talk more openly about "solutions" for Algeria. None has been so outspoken as thin, hawk-nosed Raymond Aron, respected French political commentator and Sorbonne professor. In a slim book, The Algerian Tragedy, published last week and an immediate sensation in Paris, Aron argues that only false pride prevents Frenchmen from recognizing Algeria's "vocation" for independence...
Jolivet: Works (Champs-Elysees Theater Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour; London). A showcase for one of France's most colorful contemporary composers. The compositions on exhibit are his lyrical Andante for Strings, his Concertino for Trumpet, String Orchestra and Piano, which combines a parade-ground knowledge of the trumpet with a bouncing sense of fun, and his Piano Concerto, which opens with an inferno of featureless percussion and sizzling .strings, continues with a slow movement of steamy mystery, and winds up with a recurring Latin American dance rhythm. Eeriest moments come when a flute seems to swell and shrink...
Andre Jolivet: Concerto for Trumpet, Piano & String Orchestra (Roger Del Motte, Serge Baudo; Champs-Elysees Theatre Orchestra conducted by Ernest Bour; Westminster). Debussyan impressionism and Stravinskyan neoclassicism get taken for a mocking ride in this single movement, but it is not quite so witty in this performance as the composer seems to intend...
...Manhattan Tax Lawyer Morton Baum, chairman of City Center's executive committee (and a director of the Metropolitan Opera as well), the enthusiasm seemed to justify a little spreading out. This season Balanchine was able to add to his repertory four ballets, including Firebird and a smashing new Bourèe Fantasque premièred later in the week...