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...somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...
NAPOLEON AT ST. HELENA (318 pp.)-The Journals of General Bertrand, January-May, 1821-Doubleday...
...finest piece of work since the Romans," said Napoleon of General Henri-Gatien Bertrand's bridging of the Danube in 1809. Four years later, Napoleon made Bertrand grand marshal of the imperial palace, and in this capacity the old soldier followed his master into exile at St. Helena. When Bertrand died, in 1844, he bequeathed his notebooks of the exile to his daughter Hortense, who in turn entrusted them to a French bureaucrat with orders to publish them 25 years after her death. All in all, it was not until 1946 that the grand marshal's strongbox...
...shooting at the hero. The indestructible hero is brooding Ray Milland, who has been drummed out of his regiment back east for running a saber into dastardly Hugh Marlowe. Re-enlisting at a frontier fort, he is soon squabbling with Marlowe again, this time over the affections of beauteous Helena Carter...
...after his death, she sat behind drawn shades, Hearst's doleful dachshund Helena beside her. She absently whispered a song: "Little old lady in a big red room, little old lady ..." To a visiting newsman, she spoke of happier days: "About four and a half years ago, we came here and quieted down. Before that, it was San Simeon and guests all the time. Hundreds of them. Oh, it was gay, let me tell you! We were riding and swimming and playing tennis, and Mr. Hearst was very active then. I remember the animals at San Simeon...