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...most music lovers will want to pick and choose among the ten volumes. Among the most outstanding are Volumes I and II, which include beautifully clear and simple performances of the six Brandenburg concertos, with such noted soloists as Violinists Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Schneider, Flutist John Wum-mer, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. The chief interest in Volume III is The Musical Offering (which Bach began as an improvisation on a theme supplied by Frederick the Great). Volume VI contains two memorable performances: Casals playing the Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin's performance...
Stripped but Appreciated. Considering that Calder's Paris friends included the abstractionists Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Joan Miro and Piet Mondrian, it is not surprising that he soon stripped his circus of recognizable features, while constantly complicating and improving its visual qualities. In the end, he created one of the most amusing sideshows of modern art, lodged samples of it in half a dozen leading museums...
...strapping, austere man, Ridgway used to beat enlisted men's time around an obstacle course, kept fit by chopping wood. Although every inch a fighting general, he is also a literate soldier who has been discovered reading Marcel Proust. As a postwar theater commander in the Mediterranean and Caribbean, he showed administrative talent, and considerable diplomatic flair as the U.S. member of the U.N. Military Staff Committee...
Leading the Gallic pack are Orpheus and Ways of Love. The latter is a trilogy involving three directors, Marcel Pagnol, Renoir, and the Italian Roberto Ressellinl; Anna Magnani contributes. At the Paris (58th off Fifth...
...love: the kind that stirs the mating urge, the peasant's love of his land, the heights of religious passion. Each also serves to illustrate, with varying success, the characteristic styles of Italy's Roberto (Open City) Rossellini and France's Jean (Grand Illusion) Renoir and Marcel (The Baker's Wife) Pagnol. None of the films could conceivably have been made in Hollywood...