Word: burgundians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...browns. And Will Steven Armstrong's settings for Rousillon are rather colorless (except in the finale), compared with the blues and golds of Paris and the burnt oranges and ochres of Florence. Also, much of Herman Chessid's background music, full of archaic touches right down to Landini and Burgundian cadences, is melancholia-tinged...
...life that becomes him was 1429, when he fought side by side with Joan of Arc against the English, and King Charles VII made him, at 24, a marshal of France. But even this year of good behavior is challenged by those who believe that, aided by Burgundian friends, it was he who betrayed Joan. Skipping out on the wars, despite a pledge to the King to fight on, Gilles returned to Tiffauges, lived it up with gold borrowed from a cousin to "pay the soldiers," raised a traveling troupe of actors to glorify the exploits of Joan (and Gilles...
Late in the afternoon of May 23, 1430, a Burgundian archer in the service of the English captured a hard-fighting soldier of the King of France and took his prisoner back to camp. Had he captured half the French army, his commanders would have been no happier. Stripped of armor, the soldier was seen to be a handsome, well-knit girl of 18 with short-cropped dark hair. For Jeannette d'Arc of Domrémy, who had given Charles VII his throne and whipped his English enemies with astonishing consistency, there now began one of the classic...
...mouth Burgundian songs...
Last week, to the mingled horror, delight and bemusement of a capacity (2,500) crowd in U.C.L.A.'s Royce Hall, Stravinsky conducted the Los Angeles Chamber Symphony Orchestra in the world première of his newest work-a Cantata based on the Flemish and Burgundian styles of the isth and 16th centuries. The lyrics of its four parts were taken from English folk songs of the same period...