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Milhaud: La Création du Monde (the Columbia Chamber Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Composer Milhaud made two trips to the U.S. in the early '20s, and went back to Paris jumping with jazz. In this score for a Ballet Négre (1923), he proves that he caught the inflection better than many a serious U.S. composer has yet. The performance (with Benny Goodman taking the solo clarinet part) is in the groove. Recording: good...
...cooking class working on crêpes Suzette tossed their delicate flapjacks into the air and raced for the hall. Several teachers marched their classes to the assembly hall, conducting hasty rehearsals of the national anthem on the way. A nun assigned to unlock the main chapel door was so rattled that she could do nothing but rattle the key in the lock. The royal party passed her by and filed through another door. "How beautiful," said one of them, "are the angels here...
...Disciple sipped meditatively on the Brain. "No sy-Malavasi-Ilation I," he declared. "We are Inman and I do not hesitate to Hass-ard a Guess. The game will be a cr-Ackerson, but I Balse my prediction on of-Fischi information...
...playboy, in green tam-o'-shanter and Scottish plaid mantle, had been sitting on the opposite side of the lobby, ready with a sophisticated sneer. At last, the King appeared. The Aga Khan greeted him; Guitry sneered. The King smiled vaguely. While he dined hugely (poisson à la crème, veau à la crème, champignons à la crème, framboises à la crème), a phalanx of reporters and photographers waited in vain for the appearance of the King's current romantic interest, Narriman Sadek. The underground word was that she would...
...Ravinia's once skeptical executive committee, crème de la crème had become solid roast beef...