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...expected an equally precise performance of Haydn's Symphony No.6, "Le Matin," since this work requires agility from the woodwinds and brass as well as the strings, and relies on soloists within the orchestra. But, in fact, the Haydn came off at least as well as the Bach. After a slightly sluggish start, Layton moved the orchestra onto the solid, fully-packed tone one looks for in a classical symphony. Layton followed what seems to be the current musical fashion and took all the repeats. Unfortunately, by repeating Haydn's musical joke in the last movement four times, he killed...
Headline in Le Matin...
...circulation booster, Le Matin's question was an unqualified success. Press and public not only buzzed over the antic notion of an auto trip across Asia and Europe, but within six months five teams were in China, ready to follow the caravan track north and west into the Gobi Desert. There was no need for road maps; there were no roads. There was no sure fuel supply; what was available had been hopefully shipped ahead by camel. But in Peking on the rainy morning of June 10, 1907, one of the roughest car rides since the automobile engine drew...
Artist Chabas, an established academician, worked slowly. His sessions lasted only 30 minutes each, and the posing continued for two more summers, until one September morning in 1912 the picture was finally finished. In honor of the day, Chabas called his canvas Matinée de Septembre-"September Morn." Shown...
Soon another Frenchman, the multimillionaire proprietor of Le Matin, Alfred Edwards, fell in love with her. The day Misia lunched at his home he left the table too distraught to eat. Edwards' wife berated Misia for upsetting the great man; rather than distress him, Mme. Edwards told her, Misia should become his mistress. Misia was indignant, but Edwards was persistent. For all the world like the heavy in a French melodrama, he lured Thadee Natanson into a disastrous business scheme, then offered to save him in exchange for Misia. The bargain was struck, Misia finally agreed, and after rapid...