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...electronic light and shadow. The Robert Sibbing Quintet of Macomb, Ill., even turned up with a complete Mozart string quintet transcribed for the sax. French Virtuoso Jean-Marie Londeix wailed into some high, American-style leaps during the premiere of Fellow Countryman Guy Lacour's Hommage à Jacques Ibert, thereby precipitating excited talk of a possible fusion between the French school of playing (bright, full tone, strict adherence to the instrument's normal 2½-octave range) and the American (more jazz-influenced, less inhibited in tone and pitch...
...quintet played the four movements of a Mozart divertimento the girls buzzed. At the end of each movement they applauded loudly. After playing some Hindemith, the quintet demonstrated their instruments and let some of the girls try them. Then the quintet finished with Ibert and the San Antonio chorale of Haydn...
Saxophonist Mule chose for his debut program the works of two contemporary French composers-Jacques Ibert's Concertino da Camera and Henri Tomasi's Ballade. What the audience heard was an open, evenly controlled sound that could sing with a clean vibrato or a finely trimmed staccato, swell robustly and solidly with no trace of the breathy "air sound." Under Mule's scurrying fingers, the saxophone sometimes took on the quick sheen of strings, or the water-clear inflections of the flute, or the warm quality of the bassoon. Gone were the wah-wahs and wobbles...
Although a few composers, among them Ibert, Arthur Honegger and Darius Milhaud, have since written for the saxophone, serious Saxophonist Mule, 56, still feels like a man without a musical country. It pains him to hear of abuses such as those practiced by the rock 'n' roll players who put chewing gum in the sax to dull its glorious tone. Mule notes sadly that even at the Paris Conservatory, where he is professor of saxophone, most of his students graduate into jazz or military music. "I have one mission in life," he says. "That is to make people...
...idea functions most impressively at Versailles. At dusk, some 2,000 to 6,000 visitors perch quietly on steel folding chairs on the vast graveled terrace, listening to the piquant yet noble strains of an orchestral prelude, the work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France...