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...disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more, I think, to friend than foe, / Your very name excruciates my ears- / I hope you roast in hell, Horatio, / Because we've been together twenty years...
...clothes-she "hasn't a hat to her name"); Madame Josef Beck, wife of Poland's onetime Foreign Minister (now "somewhere in Rumania"); ex-Empress Zita of Austria and her youngest daughter. Archduchess Elisabeth (more ex-royal children to follow later); French Composer Darius Milhaud (Le pauvrc Matelot) with his wife and 10-year-old son; Novelist Julian Green (The Closed Garden, The Dark Journey}, pessimistic Paris-born American who has preferred to spend most of his life in France, and now finds France actually too pessimistic for him; Novelist Jules Remains, author of the monumental super...
...evening in 1937 Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music presented to the public two one-act operas. What the critics came to hear was Le Pauvre Matelot, by one of the most famous of French modernist composers, Darius Milhaud. But what held them in their seats and sent them home happy was the light, tripping music and witty text of a little musical farce called Amelia Goes to the Ball, by an unknown graduate of the Institute, a youngster of 25 named Gian-Carlo Menotti. Next year Amelia made the Metropolitan, was so successful that it became a permanent...
...between the gay and the sombre: La Cambiale di Matrimonio ("The Matrimonial Market"), Rossini's first operatic work, an opera-buffa composed when he was 18; Angelique, music by contemporary Frenchman Jacques Ibert, the story of a shopkeeper's efforts to sell his shrewish wife; Le Pauvre Matelot, a "lament in one act," music by Darius Milhaud. libretto by Jean Cocteau, in which a woman kills a sailor, unaware that he is her husband who has returned after 15 years' absence. This week the Guild gives the first professional performance...
First on the bill was Le Pauvre Matelot (The Poor Sailor). Darius Milhaud, a member of the French modernist Group of Six, wrote it to a poem by Jean Cocteau. After its world premiere in Paris nine years ago, the opera was seldom put on. Many at the U. S. premiere last week, listening to the puzzled, formless music, thought they could tell why. Others were impressed by the vivid passages of declamation, the odd, unpleasant story of a woman who murdered her husband unbeknown...
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