Word: poulence
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brilliant high B (at the end of Gounod's "O my lyre immortelle") which brought the scheduled part of the concert to a close with the expected volley of applause. Then, as if just to show us she could do it. Mme. Crespin sang as an encore a Poulenc trifle which was all wit and elegance. Now if she only had followed that with "Ozean, du Ungeheuer...
From this indictment, I would except Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue by Francis Poulenc, Repleti Segne Euch from Bach's Cantata 196. Harvard sang the first with an admirable attention to pitch (except for an occasional flattening in the tenors) and ended up particularly well with a vigorous Gloria Patri. Yale used a semi-chorus in the balcony in its clean and well-paced rendition of the Handl. And both groups merged to perform the Bach in a competent, if not inspiring, manner...
...A.K.U. insists that some of its traditional market-splitting agreements with other Continental textile manufacturers are still necessary. But with growing competitive confidence, the company shows signs of being ready to kick over at least some of the cartel traces. Recently A.K.U. directors were informed that Rhône-Poulenc, which has long held a near-monopoly of the French artificial fiber market, expected foreign producers to refrain from selling in France despite Common Market tariff cuts. Exploded one top A.K.U. executive: "I don't give a damn what they expect...
...palmy years, from 1890 to 1925, the Monte Carlo gave the world premieres of major works by Berlioz, Ravel, Faure, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...
...utmost efficiency consistent with impeccable elegance characterized the entire program--conducting, music, and performance. Mlle. Boulanger stood on her home ground: early and modern vocal and instrumental music. The selection of music avoided the Romantic period, and the blank from the death of Bach to the birth of Poulenc--1750 to 1899--accented the intellectualized, the carefully wrought, the finely spun. Inevitably, Mlle. Bouanger conceived and reaized the program in the image of her own precise character...