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...authorities in Moulis got cold feet. Still, for Bordeaux, this all amounts to a sea change in attitude. "Ten years ago, if the head of the CIVB had said we'll grub up vines, somebody would have set fire to his car," says Frédéric Guiraud, who runs a wine trading business near Sainte-Foy-la-Grande, a town on the eastern edge of the Bordeaux region. Guiraud's firm, GRM, used to be the one that regularly bottled and bought Charles' wine. But times have changed. "Today, we refuse a huge amount, about...
...1990s--a move that increased production and exacerbated the already growing pressure on prices. As a result, the balance of power has shifted. "Until 2001, the mentality of producers was to say, 'I make the wine, I label it, and you take it and pay,'" says Frédéric Guiraud, who runs a regional wine-trading house called GRM. "Four years later, they're now saying, 'Do you want it? I don't care about the price. And can I have an advance...
...occasionally been censored (as was Verdi's Rigoletto), and sometimes the exigencies of performance required certain concessions in the music itself. Carmen, a failure when it was first performed at the Opéra Comique in 1875, was outfitted after Bizet's death with recitatives by Ernest Guiraud to replace its original spoken dialogue. But this did not change the essential character of the composer's conception...
...Gentele, as well as Igesz and Bernstein, the secret was not so much in making improvements as in going back to the original. They scrapped the musical recitatives written after Bizet's death by Ernest Guiraud and restored much of the original spoken French dialogue-never before heard at the Met. Even listeners with only high school French got a better sense of the plot. Bernstein looked at the score as though he had never conducted it before -which he had not-and came up with a broad, slow but crackingly taut performance that underlined Carmen's sense...
Friday Evening, May 7 *Marche MilitaireSchubert *"Fingal's Cave," Overture Mendelssohn *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert Persian Dance Guiraud *By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet Solo violin: Julius Theodorowicz **Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Victor Herbert Favorites Arranged by Sanford *Deep River Arranged by Jacchia *"Pomp and Circumstances," March Eigar *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...