Word: figaro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...midst of so much detail on the work of unidentified people, all that was definitely known was that under military order police had locked up Loys Aubin, news editor of Le Temps, and J. Poirier, ex-employe of Le Temps, now working in the advertising department of Figaro. As both Le Temps and Figaro explained that neither man had anything to do with policy or management, typewriters all over Paris banged out sensational but remarkably unspecific disclosures. They wrote of the beautiful Austrian Countess, C. B., "prominent figure in fashionable salons," who got across the border into Germany just...
...March, "Lorraine"Ganne *Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart Tijuen, Brazilian Dance, Milband *Les Preludes," Bymphonie Poem Liszt *Ballet Suite from "Aida" Verdi Sacred Dance of the Priestesses--Danco of the Little Black Slaves--Ballabile *"Pop Goes the Weasel" Cailliet *"Rhapsody in Blue" Greshwin Soloist: LEO LITWIN *"Lagunen," Waltzes Strauss Pavane Gould *Aragonaise from "The Cid" Massenet *Selections checked (*) are available on record at Briggs & Briggs Music C311store, Harvard Square...
...Nozze di Figaro (Wed. 2:30 p.m.. MBS). Act II of Mozart's masterpiece by short wave from England's No. 1 country-house music festival at Glyndebourne...
March, "Flag of Victory"Blon *Overture to "The Marriage of Figaro" Mozart *Largo from "Xerxes" Handel *Ouverture Solennelle, "1812" Tchaikovsky *French Military March, from the "Algerian" Suite Saint-Saens *Overture to "Benvenuto Cellini" Berlioz *"Where the Citrons Bloom," Waltzes Strauss *Divertissement Ibert *"On the Trail," from the "Grand Canyon" Suite Grofe "Turkey in the Straw" Arranged by Guion Torch Dance from "Henry VIII" German *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...their 19th-Century English translators. For many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...