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Charles Munch embarrasses Brattle Street again as the BSO languishes in Honneger's Third and "Chant de joie" this week. To appease, Mozart and Handel. At 8:30 p.m. today...
...past, Joan's Joie de vivre often seemed obscured by a depressing exploitation of her thwarted ambition. Except for a short interval between the signing and subsequent renunciation of her confession, the audience is now spared this tedium. Joan's American flavor has been achieved through a strenuous effort to forget the Frenchidiom. By not attempting to imitate the French manner, she makes the French-American transition unusually successful. Through here dialogue never degenerates to slang, she uses, with esprit, the most familiar expressions of common talk. Miss Harris is at once winsome and commanding, always conscious of her position...
...amused by the letters received in response to your review of the Swedish film One Summer of Happiness, but the letters on your article "Sin & Sweden" are even funnier . . . The last time I was in Sweden was in 1951. As a young man in search of, let us say, joie de vivre I must confess that I found less of it there than in most countries in which I have traveled...
Biggest laugh-getter was Judgment of Paris* by British Choreographer Anthony Tudor, which turned Greek mythology's trio of goddesses into three aging Parisian filles of dubious joie, vying for the favor of a sleepy potential customer (Tudor). Famed Choreographer Agnes de Mille, who danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved...
...judgments had a highly moral tone precisely because Manet's picture did not. In France of the Second Empire, bigness was associated with grandeur. A canvas the size of Manet's Lunch, people thought, should have some edifying theme, whether classical, historical or religious. To express mere joie de vivre on such a large scale was just awful...