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Frail, white-haired composer Gabriel Fauré, director of the Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...
Even before Fauré's death in 1924, blue-eyed Robert Casadesus (pronounced kah-sah-de-soo´) was well on his way to becoming one of the world's fine pianists. Today many swear that he is the greatest interpreter of Mozart and Ravel. Last week, to mark the centennial of Fauré's birth, he led a group of fellow French artists in a program of the composer's chamber music; the Museum of Modern Art audience of arty cosmopolitans voted it a fitting tribute and a notable curtain to another successful Casadesus season...
Robert & Gaby. Fauré's prize student came from the most musical household in all Paris. Rue Rochechouart rang day & night with the exuberant music played by four uncles, a dozen aunts, a score of first cousins. Father, an actor, composed operettas; grandfather, an amateur fiddler, zealously watched the musical growth of each member of the clan...
...only in St. George's but also in the choir of Manhattan's best known synagogue, Temple Emanu-El. But his first loyalty has always been to St. George's, and he is a devout Episcopalian. This Lent he hopes to give his 50th rendition of Fauré's The Palms...
...Fauré: Incidental Music to Pelléas and Mélisande (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting; Victor; 4 sides). High polishing of some lustrous bits composed for Maeterlinck's play while Debussy was at work on his monumental opera on the same subject...