Word: concerte
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free...
...camera zooms in for a close-up and focuses on her hands. She may be dicing an onion, mincing a garlic clove, trussing a chicken. Her fingers fly with the speed and dexterity of a concert pianist. Strength counts, too, as she cleaves an ocean catfish with a mighty, two-fisted swipe or, muscles bulging and curls aquiver, whips up egg whites with her wire whisk. She takes every short cut, squeezes lemons through "my ever-clean dish towel," samples sauces with her fingers. No matter if she breaks the rules. Her verve and insouciance will see her through. Even...
...Michael Field, 49, a relative newcomer who gave up a successful career as a concert pianist to conduct socialite cooking classes in his Manhattan apartment and to write the highly regarded Michael Field Cooking School. He is the consulting editor for LIFE'S forthcoming 16-volume series, Foods of the World. An uncompromising traditionalist, Field maintains that "cooks are not creative; they're simply brilliant technicians." Comparing the pianist's task of illuminating a Bach cantata with the task of a cook, he says: "You don't illuminate a souffle-it either rises or it doesn...
...group of items in a collection of miscellany, are unified both liturgically and musically. Yet they have all the variety and color of a patchwork quilt. The fact that the University Choir chose to perform them in St. Paul's Catholic Church in its fall concert Sunday night contributed to making the piece a spectacle. The Vespers form a very complex whole--they consist of a response, five psalms, a hymn, and the Magnificat, together with corresponding plainsong melodies which precede and follow each movement except the hymn. In addition, each of the eight movements is rhythmically heterogeneous...
...Lungs Like Atlas." In his own country, where he survives under the nickname "Mr. 100,000 Volts," Becaud is more popular than Beaujolais. At his February concert at Paris' Olympia music hall, where he holds the record for most performances, his visitors included Mme. Georges Pompidou, wife of the French Premier, Academician François Mauriac, Track Star Michel Jazy, and Bernard Gavoty, Paris' leading music critic. The tributes covered as broad a range. Distance Runner Jazy, who knows something about breath control, remarked in awe that Becaud "must have lungs like Atlas." Mauriac groped for a flossier...