Word: halls
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...French heritage." Indeed, the chateau that was once the residence of the Bourbon kings is now one of France's major tourist attractions. Ten galleries displaying some of the country's greatest art treasures were damaged. A huge hole gaped in the floor of a hall devoted to art of the Napoleonic era. Chandeliers lay in a carpet of crystal shards. Rare Louis-Philippe furniture and exquisite ornamental paneling were reduced to matchsticks. Busts of the great men of France's past were broken. Seriously harmed were six paintings of Napoleon, including...
Organized in 1966, the Breton Liberation Front is dedicated to achieving independence for the estimated 1 million Bretons in France who are ethnically and linguistically related to the Celts of ancient Britain. In the past twelve years, Breton militants have attacked 206 symbols of French "imperialism," including the city hall of Rennes in Brittany, state radio and TV centers, a nuclear power plant, and military and police barracks...
There was jazz in Carnegie Hall: Sonny Rollins, one of the alltime great tenor saxophonists, was sparking fire off the bluesy beat of his quintet. Bending low over his sax, Rollins, 48, would pause for a fraction of a second and then come up swinging: weaving countermelodies inside and outside the harmonies, loosing flying clusters of arpeggios that left his sax all but smoking, ending with a comic bebop flourish, head thrown back and sax brandished triumphantly...
...this year's Newport Jazz Festival. The greatest of all such festivals, Newport celebrated its 25th anniversary last week with more than 100 performers in an all-star salute to the history of jazz. From out of the Dixieland past stomped "Kid" Thomas, 82, and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Transplanted for an evening from New Orleans' French Quarter, the group played engagingly oldfashioned, banjo-accented favorites and clowned between the numbers...
Lecture/Demonstration: Thursday Speaker Series--Ralph Richey, musician. Featuring flute and fortepiano. 4 p.m., Paine Hall. Free...