Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alas, at 5:30 next morning, Monsieur Jean-Pierre Abeille, prefect of Savoie, descended on the village with 350 armed Republican Security Guards. Before anyone could sound a tocsin on the church bells, M. Abeille had seized the municipal records, thus putting the village officially out of existence. Warned M. Abeille: unless the villagers moved out forthwith, they would get no compensation money...
Other officers elected are, in Moors Hall: Sue A. Sandel '52, Social Chairman, and Barbara Williams '55, Community Service Representative; in Barnard Hall: Jean Ross '54, Social Chairman, and Mary Lee Burke '55, Fire Captain...
Louis' nephew, Francois "Le Grand," was represented by one of his most talked about but least performed compositions. It is a miniature musical drama, depicting the deification of Couperin's idol, Jean Baptiste Lully. This is program music at its most imaginative. Each of the twelve sections has an elaborate title (such as Lully in the Elysian Fields, Concertizing with the Lyric Shades) and the musical portraits are nothing short of amazing. In Subterranean Commotion Made by the Contemporary Authors of Lully, the string of the chamber orchestra make rumbling noises by means of a quasi-tremulo. In a violin...
...Combat, who had already heard the mass in Paris' church of St.-Roch, where Father Martin's choir first performed it, found it "even more beautiful and imposing . . . Perhaps the foreign visitors . . . were able to feel what the Kingdom of France once meant." The Nouvelles Litteraires' Jean Wenger found the mass "marked with the seal of the 17th century, so fertile in its greatness." All in all, France felt proud of a glorious relic of its past-until the bubble burst, two weeks later. The mass, Musicologist Felix Raugel harrumphed to his astounded colleagues, was a fraud...
Grey mustache abristle, Scholar Raugel hauled out his proofs. Composer Moulinié, he declared, had never written a mass, much less one for a French king. Moulinié was court composer to Gaston-Jean-Baptiste d'Orléans, Louis XIll's brother and enemy, and was persona non grata at Louis' court. Moreover, trumpets were not used as musical instruments until the 18th century, and Vivat Rex was never sung at the end of a mass; it was shouted three times before the mass began. Raugel had suspected Father Martin's "discovery...