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Teaching helped keep Dallapiccola going, but his name began to be heard after the 1940 premiere of his first opera, Night Flight, based on the book by Antoine de Saint Exupéry. During the war Dallapiccola went into hiding in the mountains to protect his Jewish wife from the German forces in Italy. Since the war, his reputation has steadily grown as he has added to his small body of work a number of impressive vocal compositions: Five Fragments from Sappho for Voice and Chamber Orchestra, Five Songs for Baritone, Two Anacreon Songs and Requiescat (set to words...
...SAINT-EXUPÉRY (330 pp.) - Marcel Migeo-McGraw-Hill...
...grouchy skeptics who asked whether the machine age had given the human race anything except autos and creeping concrete, air conditioning and smog. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had an impassioned answer. Man's great new gift was the earth, seen from the air. "Saint-Ex" despised the age, but accepted its gift with a mystical joy. He reacted to flight as Coleridge did to opium, with occasionally calamitous results, and wrote of the air-in Night Flight, Flight to Arras and Wind, Sand and Stars-better than anyone since...
...More easily understandable are onetime Painter Gaiser's word pictures of a flyer's lonely communion with sun, sky and sea, which at their best might have been mixed on the palette of the late mystically minded poet of flight, Antoine de St. Exup...
...Questions . . ." Airman Saint-Exupéry left behind him an unpublished testament. Now ably translated into English by British Francophile Stuart Gilbert, The Wisdom of the Sands can be read as a partial blueprint of the moral and ethical world Saint-Ex envisioned. As with most such plottings of mystical patterns, it is a hard one to follow, in this century or any other. In Wisdom, Saint-Ex imagines himself as a desert prince sharing his accumulated wisdom with his subjects (he loved the Sahara and the tradition-ruled life of its people). He is a benevolent despot, brave, warlike...