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...here & there, though with only debatable degrees of success, creative men in the Christian world have been turning to the old challenge and the old theme. Among them, in literature, have been Novelist Graham Greene and Poet T. S. Eliot. In music, such composers as Igor Stravinsky and Francis Poulenc (TIME, Nov. 27) have attempted the awesome task of setting the Mass to modern music. In painting, the record shows outcroppings of the same deep impulse...
...Bois, and as airy and evanescent as skywriting. A "charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little hard on the letter inside...
...Poulenc: Mass in G (the Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Composed in 1937, this Mass, austerely but tenderly reverent, is one of the best works that have yet come from Frenchman Francis Poulenc. Shaw's clean choral work is up to his usual high standard. On the other side: Benjamin Britten's graceful A Ceremony of Carols. Recording: excellent...
...Milhaud, Durey, Auric, Honegger, Poulenc, Tailleferre...
...play, the play just the airiness needed by the production. Adapter Valency's version is good and George S. Kaufman's staging far from bad. Leueen MacGrath is charming as the girl, but too monotonous; Wesley Addy is engaging as the suitor, but too stiff. Only Francis Poulenc's music catches the proper note of magic...