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...accident. We just never know what's going to come out." What often does emerge is an unsettling chorus of wheezes and groans, death rattles of a grand old instrument buckling under the weight of time. Unable to stand it any longer, one Chartres parishioner, Publisher Pierre Firmin-Didot, has launched a nationwide fund-raising campaign to help "Chartres refind its voice," as one newspaper...
Campaigner Firmin-Didot figures that complete renovation will cost about $120,000. It will take a year to dismantle, renovate and reassemble the massive instrument as a "neoclassic" organ. When the job is done, says Organist Ruello, Chartres for the first time will hear "the wide range of musical literature to which it is rightfully entitled...
...strangest-looking exhibit in the collection is a book by Ambroise Firmin Didot, the most famous of a very illustrious family. It is bound in leather and printed on vellum, illustrated with small vignettes. It was printed in 1855 at Paris...
...French 4 extracts from the works of the greatest authors - Montesquieu, La Sage, Didot, Voltaire, Rousseau, Beaumarchais, etc. - will be read, and lectures in French will be given on these authors and their times. Translation from English into French once a week. Those who take the course as a three-hour elective will study Paul Albert's "History of French Literature in the Fourteenth Century." History 3 will take up the Constitutional History of England, and possibly the History of the United States from the beginning of the Revolution. Lectures on Modern History will also be delivered. In History...
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