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Scenes from Mozart operas. Don Giovanni, Figaro, Cosi Fan Tutti. Free. Thursday...
With the Gaullists divided, it now seems certain that Socialist Mitterrand will win the most votes on the May 5 ballot. A poll published by Le Figaro gave Mitterrand 36% of the vote, Giscard 27% and Chaban 26%. If Mitterrand picks up enough support to win a clean majority-a Gaullist nightmare-he will become Pompidou's successor. The probability is that he will gain somewhat less than 50% of the vote, which means that Mitterrand will then face the second-ranking candidate in a runoff on May 19. Thus the real contest now is between Chaban and Giscard...
...music. Only two of the 36 songs--"Frere Jacques" and "Au Clair de la Lune"--were not written by Americans. The book, for example, includes the work of Al Jolson ("California Here I Come") but ignores that of Wolfgang Mozart ("Symphony No. 39 in E flat," "The Marriage of Figaro"). Nowhere in the songbook is the music of Ludwig van Beethoven ("The Fifth Symphony," "Missa Solemnis"), another talented foreigner. In fairness to editor Michael Scheff, it must be noted that Beethoven disliked the telephone and refused to compose for it. (Late in his life, Beethoven is reported to have smashed...
...Christian Science Monitor published an interview with a former fellow prisoner who said that Solzhenitsyn was the informer responsible for his being sent to a concentration camp. The leading Parisian daily Le Figaro printed an interview with Natalya Reshetovskaya, Solzhenitsyn's divorced wife. She dismissed Solzhenitsyn's new book, The Gulag Archipelago, a study of Soviet terror, as mere "concentration-camp folklore." In addition, vituperative articles by prominent Soviet writers about Gulag have appeared in the New York Times and France's Le Monde. These and other "exclusives" appearing in the Western press were all arranged...
...escaped to France, where an E.T. A. spokesman in Paris explained to the daily Figaro: "Our first idea was not to kill Admiral Carrero Blanco, but to kidnap him and exchange him for our political prisoners.* El Caudillo doesn't interest us any longer. An attempt against him would have made sense 30 years ago. We wanted now to demolish the edifice provided for the succession, and I think we succeeded...