Word: edgard
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...Thieves' Carnival three weeks ago we heard Lord Edgard say to his wife, "I've been reading The Times." "The same as yesterday?" asked Lady Hurf. "Not the same copy as yesterday," he replied. This week we have the pleasure of watching the grand and zany lady who has been reading the same copy of the same newspaper every day for decades and is dutifully shocked each morning on reading the same obituary...
...poor, middle-aged master thief Peterbono, each constantly trying to outwit the other. There are the two young nieces and the two young apprentice thieves; the gay niece pursues the sad thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress alike--the father trim and intelligent, the son fat and dull-witted; and they fall into the hands of a pair of cops, who of course also dress alike...
...chief thief, and is hilarious in his series of outrageous disguises. The roles of his proteges, the ardent Hector and the morose Gustave, are well entrusted to Lawrence Spector and John Reese. Guy Sorel makes the most of his mainly silent role as the hen-pecked Lord Edgard. David Bauer is properly reserved as the older Dupont-Dufort; and the endomorphic slob the latter sired is highly amusing in the hands of Tom Bosley...
...When Edgard Varèse (rhymes with fez) was a boy in Paris, the piano in his family's apartment was kept locked. His father, an engineer, did not want him to become a composer. Though Varèse went on to study music at some of the world's best schools and eventually made a name for himelf as a fierce and formidable modernist composer, there are those who believe that his father's wish was fulfilled...
...grales, Density 21.5, lonization, etc. (Rene Le Roy, flute; New York Wind Ensemble, Juilliard Percussion Orchestra, Frederic Waldman conducting; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Percussionist Edgard Varèse is a Buck Rogers of music whose drummings, thumpings, clangings and shrillings make the compositions of such modernists as Stravinsky seem old-fashioned arid conventional. Here is a full sampling for the hardy. Recording: good...