Word: midi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quick glory, even in art, and Bonnard had none. Born bourgeois in 1867, Bonnard studied law to please his father, and art to please himself. Gauguin inspired him to switch permanently to painting. He found a model named Marthe who suited him, and bundled her south to the Midi. They finally set up housekeeping in a little villa at Le Cannet overlooking terraced olive and almond groves with the Mediterranean beyond. Sea, fruit, sunshine, the glow of Marthe's flesh, the dark contrasting sheen of their dachshund, flowers, the trees and the soft airs were his joys...
...killed in a plane crash in 1956, young Conductor Cantelli, No. 1 protege of the great Toscanini, spent several days recording in London. This posthumous disk presents Cantelli's remarkably fresh reading of a couple of concert cliches: Debussy's L'Aprés-Midi d'un Faune, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe Suite #2. Strained through Cantelli's clear musical consciousness, the lush music flows out simply, movingly, and with none of the sudsy emotional film that so often clouds...
Bourgés-Maunoury had first to win approval of his own deeply divided Radical Socialist Party, among whom are such antagonists as Pierre Mendes-France and such influential though relatively unknown anti-Europeans as diminutive Newspaper Owner Jean Baylet, whose Dépéche du Midi circulates its narrow message throughout France's poorer South. Radicals questioned Bourges sharply about his plans, finally voted 44 to 10 that he take his first step. Muttered a Radical Deputy: "That doesn't mean we've approved him yet as Premier...
Haydn's Symphony in C Minor (Le Midi) began the program. This work, one of the less-often heard of Haydn's symphonies, has an unusual musical structure--one of the movements is marked "recitative," and consists of a dialogue between solo violin and orchestra. There is also an extended duet for solo violin and 'cello, during which the other instruments remain silent. Concertmaster Daniel Musher and 'cellist Sigrid Lemlein played these passages adequately, althought Musher's intonation was sometimes weak and his phrasing lacked clear articulation. Miss Lemlein drew a warm, full tone from her 'cello. The last movement...
Good is represented by a simple-minded old shepherd (Spencer Tracy), the only man ever to climb The Mountain alone (actually the Aiguille du Midi, near Chamonix in the French Alps, where the location shots were made). Evil is the younger brother (Robert Wagner) whom the shepherd, in the absence of a midwife, "brought into the world with his own hands." When a plane rumored to be carrying gold crashes on top of The Mountain just as winter is setting in, little brother begs big brother to guide him up the mountain so that he can loot the plane...