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Miroir de Votre Faust for piano solo opened the program. The piece depends to large extent on improvisation in concert by the performer. Mme. Mercenier rose to the occasion, displaying creative as well as interpretive powers by giving life and rhythm to metrically unnoticed sections. Miroir offers the musician other problems and pleasures. The pages, unbound so that the music can be shuffled around before performance, contain many "windows"--rectangular holes that allow one to see through to the next one or two pages. The performer cannot be sure what is coming next or what will return in an entirely...
COMPLETING the program was Jeu de Miroir de Votre Faust for piano and tapes, controlled respectively by Mme. Mercenier and M. Pousseur. Jeu is a reflection upon both Miroir and Votre Faust, Pousseur's newly-completed opera. Created expressly for this concert, Jeu is a reduced version of Miroir with electronic sounds superimposed. A favorite was the conspicuous return of Miroir's syrupy melody followed by a gripping cry of anguish from the loudspeakers. It was good to see this theme receive its just desserts...
...occasionally accepted the shadowy perquisites that go with high office throughout most of Asia. On his lieutenant general's salary of $509 a month (the President's salary has not yet been fixed), he has reportedly managed to accumulate considerable acreage, and can afford to send Mme. Thieu to Paris now and then for a shopping spree...
...partners and good friends was Nguyen Huu Tho, a onetime Saigon lawyer who now heads the Viet Cong's National Liberation Front. That friendship lent some credence in voters' minds to Dzu's claim to be able to negotiate with the Communists. Another law partner was Mme. Nhu's brother, Tran Van Khiem. It was a profitable alliance for both men since the Diem family connections gave them an inside track with judges and the police. Along the way, Dzu visited the U.S. and became such a fervent Rotary Club member that he served a stint...
...Fernand Léger in Biot and the Picasso museum in the Château Grimaldi in Antibes. And for some 30,000 lovers of ironwork-from forthright masculine forging to lacy feminine filigree, from the Roman keys to the needlepoint balustrade that graced Mme. de Pompadour's country mansion-there is Rouen's Musée Le Secq des Tournelles...