Word: dieu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Virgil Fox Plays the Philharmonic Hall Organ (Command). In baroque, romantic and modern music - Bach's Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor, Franck's Grande Piece Symphonique and Messiaen's Dieu Parmi Nous-Fox puts Manhattan's first fine concert organ through its paces for a disk debut. A staggering volume and variety of sound and with it, music of a high order...
...Marco, a no-count native of Pittsburgh whose real name is Marco Spinelli. In "Beauty and the Beast," Marco offers advice to females, mostly matrons interested in getting their husbands interested again, and once recommended: "Take a bath with your husband. . . . Step daintily into the bubble-filled tub. Mon Dieu, this is no time to bend over." Newest addition to the growing throng is Society Columnist Frances Moffatt, who after eleven years as chief chitchatterer for the Examiner, gave the paper notice one Monday and flounced off to a champagne reception at the Chronicle only three days later. Boob Audience...
...seems deaf, De Gaulle should be a figure of fun (and sometimes is), but the greatness in the man usually survives the mockery. His mind is like the Louvre, filled with battle pictures in which the French are always winning; his heart throbs with simple emotions labeled Patrie, Dieu, Gloire, and he has a gift for prophecy that is more Old Testament than 20th century modern. De Gaulle's faults are common to many men-he is bullheaded, arrogant, touchy, more responsive to flattery than criticism, insufferably proud of his intellect and insight. His virtues, however, are rare...
...vocal line should dominate," and it does, against an orchestra as luminous as any Ravel ever created. Among the opera's more effective touches: a procession of shepherds and shepherdesses to a sinuous dance theme played by reed pipes and tambourines; the dizzying dance of the digits (Mon Dieu! c'est I'arithmetique!) to raucous and leering brasses...
...scene; but police were still looking for the truck itself. The museum's semiofficial watchman had spent the night with a sick relative. Local police were snugly in bed until the next morning, when Charwoman Incarnation Olivares arrived, took one look at the bare walls, shrieked: "Mon Dieu, they have pulled off the museum...