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Last week, at Manhattan's Town Hall Composer Varèse exhibited his latest composition, a piece for orchestra and tape recorder entitled Deserts. Onstage was a 20-man orchestra, five of whose members played percussion. Backstage, peering out under beetling brows, was Composer Varèse himself, one hand on the...
If Jacques Offenbach wasn't a funny old gentleman whose feet were "firmly fixed in the clouds," he probably should have been. Pierre Fresnay's screen portrayal of the nearsighted and bewhiskered French composer is delightful. He ambles blithely into a ladies' dressing room, offers a job to a status...
Jacques Offenbach, they said in Paris, certainly can cancan. But could he write serious music? He died trying to finish his one attempt, an opera with a libretto based on stories by Germany's weird. Poe-etic story spinner, E.T.A. Hoffmann (1776-1822). The Tales of Hoffmann, first produced...
A Cruel Hoax. Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber's L'Express (circ. 75,000) promptly slashed at the Elle charges with double-page center spreads in defense "of that most fragile of human mechanisms: a poet." The paper ran photostats of Minou's green-inked scribbling, complete with...
When the votes were counted, the wan and weary Faure had squeezed by again, 285 to 247. But most of his own Radical Party and almost all the Socialists voted against him. He had the Communists to thank for his victory: their 90 votes had been cast for Faure. But...