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...massive sweep and sumptuous sound, Reiner's Chicago Symphony for its fine articulation and meticulous attack. Last week the two Hungarians swapped podiums and gave their audiences a fascinating demonstration of how quickly a first-rate conductor can teach a first-rate orchestra to talk his own idiom...
...posters, continued to develop impressive technical skill. But it lived in a world apart from the fresh dance ideas that swept through Europe and the U.S. Later, the major companies commissioned works by modern composers, including Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Khachaturian, but all three tailored their music to the classic choreographic idiom. The Russians' failure in modern productions became most evident during the Bolshoi Ballet's otherwise hugely successful 1956 season at London's Covent Garden. The company expertly paraded such gorgeous old floats as Swan Lake and Giselle, but was peppered by the critics for the lack...
...Romain Gary has constructed a modern fable, and good fables, like nursery rhymes, must command belief. As a man of action (he was a hero of the French air force, is now French consul general in Los Angeles), Author Gary understands this well, has written his story in the idiom of documentary journalism. It is completely successful-one of the best narratives to be published in a long time. The Roots of Heaven has won one of France's highest literary awards-the Prix Goncourt -doubtless for the very French way in which it brings politics into the jungle...
...written over a period of 30 years, between 1908 and 1939. Even the earliest reveals a musician of size and depth. Impressively played, all reveal a dazzling ability to create new sounds about old torments, a gift for making strings do everything but talk. Sometimes, in the strange musical idiom Bartok invented, they seem to do even that...
...histrionics, as their subject matter is relegated to a whimsical leitmotif, subordinated to the wholly poetic studies in color and shape. This latter group incidentally has long represented Klee in exhibitions of the so-called French school. They are works whose universal qualities transcend the mannerisms of any one idiom. It is perhaps this individualism which makes it so difficult to categorize a "French School" despite the heavy concentration of modern painters from that country...