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...with the French prose classics and the poetry of Victor Hugo. His family had middle-class aspirations and so emphasized the value of French culture that Creole never became a viable means of expression for Cesaire. Sent to study in Paris at age 18, he met Leon Damas and Leopold Senghor and began to formulate his theory of negritude...
Senegal's Leopold Senghor says, "The colonizing powers did not prepare us for independence." True, but those European nations did build roads and help with farming. They also brought in medical supplies and educated Africa's youth in British and French universities...
...year later, Marsalis has issued a new jazz album, Think of One (title track courtesy Thelonious Monk), and, concurrently, a piece of classical virtuosity, three trumpet concertos (Haydn, Leopold Mozart and Hummel). And Marsalis just seems to be warming up. Remarked the classical trumpet virtuoso Maurice André": "He is potentially the greatest trumpeter of all time...
...DIED. Leopold III, King of the Belgians, 81; of a heart attack; in Brussels. In 1940, instead of fleeing to set up a government in exile, the urbane, willful monarch surrendered to Hitler's invading army and was held prisoner during World War II. Self-exiled after the war because of Belgian bitterness about his surrender and disapproval of his second marriage to a commoner, Leopold returned in 1951, but violent riots broke out, persuading him to abdicate to his son, the bashful, 20-year-old Baudouin, who has since presided over a stable, prosperous Belgium...
...Leopold Stokowski, proud conductor of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, last week turned upon his applauding audience and said: "This strange beating together of hands has no meaning. To me it is very disturbing. We try to make sounds like music, and then in between comes this strange sound that you make." Delighted, the audience clapped loudly...