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...Bravo,” as the rest of the audience joined in enthusiastic applause. The main course of the night was served with Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Originally written for piano, the ten-piece suite was orchestrated by French Impressionist composer Ravel for former music director of the Boston Symphony Serge Koussevitzky. The opening “Promenade” theme in B-flat recurs frequently throughout the piece, though with different tonal shadings. Levine directed the orchestra through a broad and majestic “Promenade...
...Since then, Harvard’s team of professors, along with a handful of graduate students and post-docs, have made the 10- to 12-hour trip between Cambridge and the collider’s home at the European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), situated near the French-Swiss border...
...next administration to focus on dialogue with the entire European Union, not just France, Germany, and Britain. European students voiced their support for Barroso’s critiques. Speaking of the European Union’s perceived weakness in responding to the Russian aggression in Georgia, Clemence Charras, a French visiting student in Leverett House, said “It was very interesting how many Americans’ questions focused on the fragility of the Union.” Barroso responded by noting that only the European Union’s proposal was able to halt the current violence. Contrasting...
...Parliament. In Garden, we see Teddy ham-handedly break off his affair with Joanna, who goes steadily bonkers in the midst of preparations for the annual summer fete. Shuttling in and out of both plays are Teddy's precocious teenage daughter and her rather dim suitor; an alcoholic French actress on her way to the rehab clinic; a bizarre trio of household servants; another couple whose marriage is on the rocks; a children's maypole dance; and a driving rainstorm...
...next-door neighbor, is the last to learn of his wife's affair and the first, pathetically, to forgive her. Ayckbourn has made a specialty of portraying people who are too dull-witted, or self-absorbed, or obsessed with social niceties, to comprehend the wreckage around them. The boozing French actress (Zabou Breitman), after a fling with Teddy, lets loose a torrential confession in a language he doesn't understand. "I don't think I've ever talked like this with anyone," he says, touched. Precisely...