Word: eugene
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...ausanne (May 25-June 22). Now in its sixth year, it is Western Europe's best showcase for little-known Communist talent. Among this year's visitors: the 250-member Belgrade Opera (in Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov and Kho-vantchina, Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin), the Budapest Ballet, the Warsaw Symphony...
...lack of a first-class concert hall (a visiting violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
Titled Say It Right! (more properly, Say It Correctly), the disk provides pronunciation for the names of 202 composers, starting with Adolphe-Charles Adam ("Ah-DAHM") and ending with Eugene Ysaye ("OY-jen Ee-SI-ya"). It also includes 134 operas, 55 ballets, 47 tone poems and suites, 62 conductors, 61 instrumentalists, 72 singers, ten operatic and orchestral groups, and 161 musical terms. From this generous supply every player must, of course, select his own repertory of names. A good random beginner's list might include Hector Berlioz ("EC-tor BEAR-li-oss"), Emil Waldteufel ("VAAL-toy-ful"), Kurt Weill...
...more peculiar and dramatic sea fights of World War II. On May 21, 1941, the day after the German invasion of Crete, the 45,000-ton battleship Bismarck was reported steaming out of the Kattegat into the North Sea, escorted by the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen. Two days later, the pride of the Nazi navy was sighted speeding south toward the shipping lanes of the open Atlantic. Two British ships of the line engaged her. Bismarck quickly sank H.M.S. Hood, the biggest ship in the British battle fleet, and battered Prince of Wales so badly that she steamed off under...
...unfettered real-life bohemian. With a minimum of stage props and commentary, Actress Stickney has woven an autobiographical chronicle out of Edna Millay's poems and letters, from her youthful dreaming in a Maine seacoast town through her Greenwich Village bohemian days and her married life with Eugen Boissevain to her solitary death at 58, in a hilltop house in the Berkshires...