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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Written in 1917, "Les Noces" depicts Russian folk lore with a nationalist and unorthodex flavor. It is "sensational" music according to conductor Irving G. Fine '37, professor of Music, for the dissonant sounds produced by the preponderance of percussion make a "clamoring, gong-like music...
...LES NELSON Madison...
Died. Anne de Gaulle, 18, invalid youngest child of Charles de Gaulle's three; of bronchial pneumonia; at Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, France...
...young Swiss esthete among Paris' musical Young Turks, he had conducted many an uproarious premiere of their raucous and startling works-as they seemed then. Stravinsky's Les Noces, De Falla's Le Tricorne, Ravel's La Valse, Honegger's Pacific 231 (which is dedicated to Ansermet) had first come to life under his baton. Between premieres and table-pounding talk with Picasso, Diaghilev, Prokofiev and Stravinsky ("a man of great culture-and the best businessman I ever knew"), Ansermet mastered the classics-without losing his appetite for the moderns...
...Hard Way. In Dansville, N.Y., Hunter Les Moffat wounded a deer, chased it, finally bagged it by wrestling it into a creek and drowning...