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AGASSIZ THEATER. New England Chamber Opera: Harlequin--Busoni and Philemon and Baucis--Gounod, Jan. 27, 8:30, $2 (students) $3 (general...
...people have begun to talk about a different time period. Instead of the year 2000, they now worry about making it past March. Then, some 22 million French voters will go to the polls to choose among 3,000 candidates for the 490 seats in the French Chamber of Deputies. For the first time since Charles de Gaulle founded the Fifth Republic in 1958, there is a real possibility that they will return a leftist majority. That would mean not only an end to 15 years of Gaullist control of the National Assembly but a potentially worrisome constitutional crisis since...
...France does not have proportional representation, and voting districts tend to be laid out in ways that maximize Gaullist strength and minimize the impact of Socialist and Communist votes. Thus, a United Left majority at the polls next March would probably fail to translate into a majority in the Chamber of Deputies. Even so, the leftist challenge has forced France's erstwhile man of Europe to become...
...city. More than 50% of the work force will have service jobs connected with the tourist industry that is expected to develop from the sandy beaches nearby and the warm, rain-free skies overhead during nine months of the year. Pithat Rafah even has the beginnings of a chamber of commerce: boosters are already bragging that the climate is much nicer than Tel Aviv...
...explosante/fixe . . . is scored for eight instruments, each equipped with floor microphones, plus an electronic supergadget called the Halaphone. In the first performance of the piece by the Lincoln Center Chamber Music Society, the Halaphone not only transmuted the instrumental sounds electronically, but sped those sounds around the concert hall via loudspeakers pinned to the walls. Boulez remained onstage cuing the technicians. The title of the composition is descriptive: while the violin, flute or vibraphone plays on a given pitch level (fixe), the trumpet or cello explodes (explosante) with violent rhythms or scale passages. But fixation can sometimes change to explosion...