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...York Philharmonic Young People's Concert with Leonard Bernstein (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Claude Debussy's La Mer and Maurice Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé are the central examples in a program that asks: "What Is Impressionism?" Lenny answers...
...colonnaded mansion at Cap Ferrat, Mary Lasker widow of U.S. Advertising Tycoon Albert D. Lasker, was dining quietly with two good friends: Gérald van der Kemp, curator of the Versailles Palace, and Anna Rosenberg. President Truman's Assistant Defense Secretary. At nearby Eze-sur-Mer, U.S.-born Prince Youka Troubetzkoy and his beautiful princess. Sparkplug Heiress Marcia Stranahan, had left their sumptuous Villa Mayou to attend a formal dinner dance given by Boston Financier Serge Semenenko aboard Sir Bernard Docker's yacht Shemara. In the warm Mediterranean darkness, the surf pounded restlessly against the rocky Riviera...
...whitewashed, thatch-roofed cabaret in St.-Maries-de-la-Mer, west of the French Riviera, the crowd sat in the smoky darkness one night last week as the guitarist strummed the gypsy rhythms that he had learned as a boy. The slight, intense performer did not like the feel of the crowd-"les marts," he contemptuously called them, "the dead ones." His playing was listless until midnight, when the dead ones left, and an enthusiastic group of flamenco appreciators-some gypsies among them-arrived from Aries. Then 29-year-old Ricard Baillardo (Manita de Plata, or Little Silver Hands...
...language of Catalan, spoken in the sunny region on the border of Spain the word "maillol" means "young vine beside the sea." Aristide Joseph Bonaventure Maillol was born in the village of Banyuls-sur-Mer, where his grandfather had operated as a smuggler. At 19 he set out for Paris to become a painter, and though he quickly became disgusted with his classes at the School of Fine Arts ("I painted more apples than Cézanne. This was the time of the apple, a period in which we wasted our time"), he found impressive support on the outside. Gauguin...
...Italian composer Giro Pinsuti experimented with the theme in his Mer-cante di Venezia in 1873. After that there was Deffès' Jessica (1898), Foerster's Jessika (1905), Alpaerts' Shylock (1913), and Hahn's Le Marchand de Venise (1935). The various operatic treatments of Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice have one quality in common: they have all but disappeared from the stage. Last week yet another Merchant had arrived-with a good chance of beating the old jinx. The composer: Italy's Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco...