Word: maeterlincks
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...beetle-shaped Carol 360, made by Toyo Kogyo, to Nissan's squat, six-passenger, $3,750 Cedric, named after a character in the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. The bestseller: Nissan's $1,566 Bluebird, named for "the bluebird of happiness" m the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Though these cars are rugged, functional and economical, they cannot compete in styling and roominess with most U.S. and European makes, which will be nearer to the Japanese prices when the tariffs are reduced...
...sharp contrast to Scarlatti's simplicity were the shifting moods of Gabriel Faure's Pellas and Melisande, composed as incidental music to the Maeterlinck dramatic poem. Biss achieved a good variety of sonorities in the four richly orchestrated movements. In the Prelude the orchestra sounded rich and as one unit; at other times, as in the second movement, subdued violins contrasted sharply with pizzicati in the celli and wood-wind solos. The dance-like quality attained in the third movement was excellent. The music lost direction, however, in the Marche Funebre, when Biss had to struggle to keep the dotted...
Unlike Maurice Maeterlinck, whose The Life of the Bee used the insects in part as a flight vehicle for his own soarings into the wild extramundane blue yonder, dedicated Beekeeper Crompton lets the bees buzz for themselves. He follows them, with cries of pride and lamentation, from their hexagonal cradles to their grave in the grass...
...violins in "La Fileuse" and the tinges of modal harmony in "Mort de Melisande." Everything here is achieved through understatement, through minute shadings within a restrained gamut. The resulting "parfum imperissable," to borrow the title of one of Faure's songs, is perfectly suited to the evocative gentleness of Maeterlinck's great Symbolist play; it is, if I may indulge in oxymoron, music of cool warmth. Such music as this demands an extraordinarily nuanced performance from every player; yet all came through with the requisite sensitivity, and the music really breathed...
...years), the majority because of "theological error" rather than immorality. Among Indexed books: Richardson's Pamela; Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire; Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Hugo's Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, all the works of Anatole France, Zola, Maeterlinck...