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After puffing up 88 spiraling stone steps, Marcel Dupré, the greatest organist in France, sat down at the 500-year-old organ, a magnificent work of art whose 2,270 fluted pipes pyramid majestically into the vaulted heights of Chartres Cathedral. It was to be his first recital in that majestic shrine, an hour to remember. But as Dupré launched into Bach's Toccata and Fugue in G Minor, the organ balked and choked off a high note. The organist winced, but forged on, muttering "lamentable, lamentable...
That was in 1952, and the citizens of Chartres have not forgotten the incident, for Dupré has never returned and the organ has since become a cause of national embarrassment. "Every Sunday," grieves the cathedral's permanent organist, Marcel Ruello, "there's a new 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...
...mile, breezing in at 4 min. 00.8 sec. > France's Relko: the 184th English Derby, by six lengths and at 5-1 odds over what British horsemen called the worst field in years (11 of the 26 horses had never won a race). Owned by Paris Hotelman Francois Dupré and a stablemate of Match II, which won last year's $125,000 Washington, D.C., International, Relko picked up $98,950 for his afternoon's outing at Epsom. > Britain's Graham Hill: the 195-mile Grand Prix of Monaco, deftly guiding his B.R.M. around the twisting...
...Because he feels that "our audience is at least as intelligent as we are," he treats advertisers as they have rarely been treated before: he puts on their commercials only when he sees fit, edits and cuts them. Barbe is busy planning an elaborate Easter week program including Marcel Dupré's Stations of the Cross and the Bruckner Te Deum. Says he: "The assumption that the American people do not know and do not like good music is strictly for the birds...
...organ Dupré was playing last week in Chicago suited him to a T. It was a little bigger than the earth-shaking organ at St. Sulpice on Paris' Left Bank, which he has played on & off for the past 42 years and considers the world's best. But Chicago's is still a runt-only four manuals and 126 stops-compared to Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall monster, which has ten manuals and 364 stops, including a bass drum, glockenspiel, Chinese gong, xylophone, a grand piano, harp and two bird whistles...