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...essence of Mlle. Boulanger's greatness is her complete affinity with the spirit, and more especially with the rhythm of the music. Conducting a program which consisted of an almost bewildering array of styles, she shifted in and out with complete ease and sureness. The depth of her musical understanding was illustrated by the modulations of approach within each composer, bringing out the enormous variety possible in a group of Monteverdi, or in a Bach Cantata...
...Mlle. Boulanger's technique as a conductor is not to lead, so much as to elicit the music from the players and singers, participating with them in chamber music fashion. She conducted standing at the piano, occasionally supplying her own version of a continuo part. This resulted frequently in uncertainty, and some awkward moments. But for the most part, she had the complete sympathy of the musicians, whose grasp of her rhythms and nuances amounted almost to mystical communion...
...night's concert were a select number of the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society, and the Bach Society Orchestra. Most of the members of these groups have a technical competence on the professional level, and musical capacities far above many professionals, enabling them to respond fully to Mlle. Boulanger's wishes. The orchestra was unusually rich and warm in Lili Boulanger's Vieille Priere Bouddhique, and the chorus sang with beautiful tone as always...
...audience received Mlle. Boulanger with a standing ovation, which it repeated at the end of the concert; but Mlle. Boulanger, in a final gracious gesture, sat down at the piano, and refused to rise until the musicians rose to share the applause with...
...only fly in the ointment is 16-year-old Joss, senior daughter of the Greys. She and Eliot get the trembles whenever they brush shoulders-and Mlle. Zizi, a jealous old gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about...