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When the F.L.N. called for a general strike to protest talk of partitioning Algeria, even the French expected the worst. Jacques Coup de Fréjac, France's chief press officer in Algeria, bluntly acknowledged that "support for the rebellion cannot grow any more-it is total," adding that Moslems would "gladly" follow the strike order "ioo%." Last week Algeria's Moslems proved that he was right...
...Carcassonne (through July 15). Behind its formidable walls, the fortress city offers a program formidable, meeting the competitive challenge of the nearby Avignon festival with Goldoni and Aristophanes, Romeo and Juliet, Emmanuel Roblès' Montserrat, a presentation in the original Provençal of Frédéric Mistral's poem Calendau, and a production called A Meeting with Vincent Van Gogh in Aries, based on the painter's correspondence with his brother Theo...
...pupil, Babette Ployer; Beethoven's graceful and pensive Bagatelle for Therese Malfatti, the 18-year-old niece of his doctor; Wagner's Ankunft bei den Schwarzen Schwänen (Arrival at the Black Swans), which sounds a little like Tristan und Isolde as written by Frédéric Chopin...
...Fr. Norman J. O'Connor, C.S.P., will act as commentator for the group, whose selections will include "The Thrill Is Gone," "Moanin'," "Azure," "That Old Feeling," "Rib Room," "Three Part Suite for Octet," "Rock Bottom," "Confirmation," "Cubano Chant," "Ambrosia," "Visa," "4:00 A.M.," and "Night Float...
...Rocco. But in their first-act quartet in the form of a canon, Mir ist so wunderbar, the four were often shakily uneven. The only real star of the evening proved to be Canadian Tenor Jon Vickers as Florestan, who sang his moving second-act aria, In des Lebens Frühlingstagen (In the springtime days of life), with conviction and power. The orchestra under Conductor Karl Boehm was ragged, and the winds tootled some of the wrongest notes to pierce the Met air in a long while...