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Franck: Psyché & Le Chasseur Maudit (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Désiré Defauw conducting; Victor, 8 sides). In Psyché, Franck characteristically overlaid a classic pagan myth with some of his own emotional religiosity. Its companion tone poem, Le Chasseur, based on Teutonic myth, does not come off so well. Performance: excellent...
...Canadiens were tied with the New York Rangers, 0-0. During a melee around the Ranger cage, in slid the puck. But the goal was disallowed; the referee had blown his siffleur (whistle). "Sacré maudit!" (damn it all) groaned the fans, holding their heads in agony. Cried one to the referee: "Gros jambon, tu pues!" (you big ham, you stink...
...drinking wine and coughing blood. He and Utrillo would wander into bars, introducing each other to the drunks inside as the "greatest painter in the world"; when the cops came, Modigliani would be carried off, excitedly reciting Dante to the uncomprehending constabulary. Head-wagging Parisians called him the peintre maudit (cursed painter...
...certain crossroads, so the smooth-shaven and deeply lined face of Charles Baudelaire at its appointed time looms up like certainty for those who follow the orthodox road to literary sophistication. As the author of this most recent life of Baudelaire notes in his introduction, the "poet maudit" generally appears on the horizon of his American readers during their college years...
...Franck, Symphonic Poem, "Le Chasseur Maudit" ("The Wild Huntsman...