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...particular hope when she heard last summer that "one of my gods," veteran First Flutist Georges Laurent of the Boston Symphony, was retiring. But she had experience and solid training (at Rochester's Eastman School), and she applied for the position anyway. In July she traveled to Tanglewood for an audition with Conductor Charles Munch. She played him some Bach, waited while other applicants took their turns, then went back twice more to show what she could do with Debussy and Ravel. Munch took two months to decide. It was not until fortnight ago that a phone call came...
...nodded approvingly over her solo bits in Beethoven's Fourth Symphony. The Boston Globe critic was even more approving; he pronounced her "a true find." Scowled the Herald's Elie: "I find it difficult to accept the notion that any lady flute player could ever succeed Georges Laurent either as an artist or as an object of such veneration among...
...most part, Boston took in the show silently and thoughtfully, occasionally clucking at the stiff prices (up to $7,500 for Sculptor Robert Laurent's bronze Lot's Wife). As usual, the crowd seemed to like the realism best, voted Java Leopard, a startling, almost photographic jungle scene, their favorite in the show. One advance-guard offering, a section of weathered wood decorated with horseshoe nails and bright paint, drew indignant snorts. "Pay $350 for that piece of wood?" exclaimed a shopgirl. "I wouldn't have it in my house." "You can say that again," agreed...
Under the firm hand of Communist Leader Laurent Casanova, some 70 French sculptors, painters and art critics got together in Paris last week for what was loudly proclaimed as "an exchange of views." Net result: everyone signed a letter listing the things all good artists should be for & against. What they were against: 1) the Korean war, 2) U.S.-made A-bombs, 3) the "horrors of bacteriological warfare." What they were for: "An art which will draw inspiration from socialist realism and be understood by the working class." Among the signers was one French artist who has tried just about...
What is the effect on the French navy? Author Saint-Laurent doesn't say. It may take a sequel...