Word: fr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard Fr'shm'n 13, Yale Fr...
...into the score of West Side Story, even the guests of honor, Prince Rainier and Princess Grace, could not help tapping their feet. Despite the hazards of the location and the hackneyed nature of the music, the long concert was one more demonstration that under 40-year-old Conductor Frémaux the once-moribund Monte Carlo Orchestra is fast becoming one of Europe's most gifted ensembles...
...casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...
People & Wars. Frémaux had come back to civilian life from a Legion tour of duty in Algeria just as Rainier began conductor hunting. Born in northern France, Frémaux had studied piano briefly at Valenciennes Conservatory before World War II sent him into the Maquis. He went to St.-Cyr military academy at war's end, served in Indo-China under General LeClerc. The experience, he thinks, was not altogether foreign to a musical career: "I learned a lot from my years in Indo-China; it was my discovery of the world; I saw people...
...Frémaux at first wanted to compose, but decided that it did not give him enough chance to "exteriorize myself." He turned to conducting and graduated with the conservatory's Premier Prix for leading an orchestra. An offer from an independent record company to make recordings of 18th century French music led Frémaux to his first Grand Prix du Disque (in 1955) and gave him a national reputation. But when he was called back to the Legion in 1956 for duty in Algeria, he had yet to show what he could do in a permanent conducting...