Word: edouarde
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...months after the death of Com poser Maurice Ravel in 1937, his brother Edouard saw Disney's feature-length cartoon Snow White and decided that "this is the way L'Enfant et les Sortileges should be presented. Ravel's second and last opera had for its locale the mind of a child. In its cast are teapots as big as a man, cats who talk of love, squirrels who ruminate on redemption. It calls for 18 principals and a chorus of tree frogs, and one of its climactic solo passages by a Chinese cup (mezzo-soprano) consists...
...hundreds of years, Turkish poets imitated those of Persia; in the 19th and 20th centuries, the model has been France. This lively first novel skillfully blends both traditions with a strong individualistic note of its own and suggests that U.S. readers may have been missing something. Beautifully translated by Edouard Roditi, the book tells the story of young Memed who grows up in a mud-walled village hut in a remote province of Anatolia. Recklessly brave and a deadly marksman, Memed battles his environment and a succession of superb villains. Chief among them: sly, goat-bearded Abdi Agha, who owns...
...Genius." The recipient of these accolades was born to the name of Charles Edouard Jeanneret in the dour Jura mountain village of La Chaux-de-Fonds in Switzerland, a few miles from the French border. His parents were Protestants, descendants of the heretical Albigenses who took refuge in the town in the 13th and 14th centuries. His father, a stolid leader of the local Alpine Club, was an enameler of watch faces. His mother, who died last year at 100, trained her oldest son, Albert, to be a musician, and told Charles Edouard: "You will be a genius...
...Yuri Gagarin really the first spaceman? French Correspondent Edouard Bobrowski, just back from Moscow, and speaking over France's state-owned radio, declared that Gagarin was the second. The first spaceman, said Bobrowski, was Sergei Ilyushin, son of Russia's famed aircraft designer. Said Bobrowski: "Sergei Ilyushin is a tough boy, a kind of Soviet Gil Delamare [French parachute jumper, stock-car racer and stuntman], and his father's position permitted him to do anything he wished. He absolutely wanted to be the first one to reach the cosmic barriers. Authorization was given him through...
...intense young woman with fragile features and piercing green eyes, Berthe passed that lesson on to her good friend Impressionist Edouard Manet, who had never painted outside his studio. Manet in turn liberated her brush, taught her to use rapid, loose strokes rather than to aim for dead exactness. After Manet married, Berthe transferred her affections to his younger brother Eugene, who in time became her husband. Their house on the edge of the Bois de Boulogne became one of Paris' brightest salons. Impressionists Claude Monet and Edgar Degas were members of the circle, and so was a struggling...