Word: coq
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rimsky-Korsalcoff: Suite from Le Coq d'Or (Minneapolis Symphony Or chestra, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides). Orchestral arrange ments of choice morsels from a pompously inflated opera. Performance: excellent...
...foie gras direct from Strasbourg. The Chambord had been commended by Columnist Lucius Beebe as a nice little place to get a $35 dinner for two without wine. Now OPA inspectors found that the Chambord was getting $15 for a $12 pheasant dinner (Le Coq Faisan en Belle Vue Edward VII, for two). The management hastily dropped Le Coq, substituted a $10 veal chop...
...full nationalistic stride, the Soviet Union last week got around to honoring the man who did more than any other to make Russian music Russian-genial, bush-bearded Nikolai Andreievich Rimsky-Korsakov. The occasion was the 100th anniversary of his birth. The composer of Scheherazade and 15 operas (Coq d'Or, the Snow Maiden, etc.) was the most scholarly member of the famed "Five" (the others: Mussorgsky, Balakireff, Borodin, Cui) who in the '60s weaned Russian music from the influence of German Romanticism and Italian opera. He was also the author of important treatises on harmony and orchestration...
...tamales, hot cakes, coffee, tea, milk, near beer. This week's daily menus, 20 years later, include nine hot entrees chosen from a list of 2,700 dishes, all à la carte. Most expensive: New York cut steak, $3.25. Least expensive: hamburger, 35?. Most exotic (at $2.50): Le Coq Avin (boneless capon sautéed in butter, cognac; cooked in burgundy; served with chicken livers, truffles, mushrooms...
Conductors are as important as jockeys, and Bruno Walter, a successful guest conductor last season, led a sweetly stirring performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. Another great opera man. Sir Thomas Beecham, will be in the saddle for Carmen, Le Coq d'Or and Bach's Phoebus and Pan. The Met had planned to shake up its two Italian veterans, Gennaro Papi and Ettore Panizza, giving to each some operas that the other had been leading. But just before last week's Traviata, Signor Papi dropped dead of heart disease. Panizza took his place...