Word: chansons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...note said: "Please be at Apartment Eight on the first floor of No. 15 Blaue Lampe Strasse at 6 this evening." Beautiful Countess Kristina Dukay popped into her "sheer, cobweb-thin, rose-colored slip" and a blue dress, dabbed on some stuff called Chanson du Narcisse and scuttled off to the assignation . . . The door opened, and in came a man wearing a beard and yellow spectacles. As Kristina teetered in a state of pleasant giddiness, the man raised his hand, ripped off his beard and spectacles, and stood revealed-the Emperor Karl of Austria himself...
...variety show, Mlle. Piaf began singing (mostly in French) her drab ballads on Broadway. She flung them out resonantly, acted them out skillfully and sometimes appealingly. But she was not half as much fun as nine very gay young Frenchmen on the program, billed as Les Compagnons de la Chanson, who sing a song well and spoof a song wonderfully...
...course in "The Development of Romance Culture" could cover a topical range from national heroic poetry such as La Chanson de Roland and the Cid through Dante and Victor Huge to realism, naturalism, dadaism--even existentialism. One member of the Department's staff envisions "high selectivity" and a departure from the customary survey course pattern stressing detailed names of books and authors. "From the specialist's point of view it would all be superfluous," he ventures, but who cares...
...fortify his position with the U.S. public, Sablon began over CBS this week (Sun., 5:30 p.m., E.D.S.T.) a series of 15-minute chanson-and-chatter programs. For the first time a coast-to-coast audience could savor the bilingual ambiguities of such Sablon songs as Le Fiacre, the success story of a married woman and her lover. As they are driving about, their coach accidentally runs over the husband, who has been secretly tailing them. The wife looks out, observes: "Splendid, Léon, it's my husband. . . . Give 100 sous to the coachman...
...sign-signaled a student orchestra through a too-briskly gaited Afternoon of a Faun. Koussevitzky observed: "Maybe fine conductor for Brazilian music but he needs to be teached to change approach for European music." In Tanglewood's garage, a 40-member four-part chorus, struggling through a Hindemith chanson, was having soprano trouble. Conductor Robert Shaw pleaded: "No, girls, Wa ta is so wrong. Listen to the way the tenors do it ... I want just a great big C sharp...