Word: poulence
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...museum, preserving and displaying the standard repertory: works such as La Traviata, Tosca and Die Meistersinger. But an opera house must also be active in reviving worthy pieces and commissioning new ones. Under Levine's artistic administration, the Met has successfully explored new territory in such operas as Poulenc's fervid Dialogues of the Carmelites, Berg's thorny Lulu, Kurt Weill's sardonic Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and the ebullient French triple bill Parade. In standard works, such as Verdi's Don Carlo and Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, the company...
...could almost hear the sigh of relief here," said a top executive of France's Rhone-Poulenc chemical and fiber conglomerate. Applauded the conservative Paris daily Le Figaro: "It seems that realism has finally overcome ideology." Even Pierre Charpy, a spokesman for the opposition Rally for the Republic Party, conceded that the long-dreaded move by the Socialist government of President Francois Mitterrand was "not a scandal...
...that exhaling followed the government's formal takeover last week of Rhone-Poulenc and four other industrial groups, with total 1980 sales of $46 billion, plus 23 banking and financial institutions, and the appointment of 27 men and one woman to head the nationalized firms. Yet those captains of socialist industry looked much like their capitalist predecessors. In fact, at two firms, they were the very same faces, and at most of the others they might as well have been...
...Jean Gandois, 51, who will retain his job as president of Rhone-Poulenc. An experienced industrialist and champion of free enterprise, Gandois had been singled out by France's powerful labor unions as a prime target for sacking because of his job-threatening efforts to phase out unproductive textile plants. That Mitterrand kept Gandois is a clear sign that the unions will not have a free hand in running what some pundits are starting to call "France...
Dunster House Music Society--"Music from Mather"; music of Quantz, Beethoven, Hindemith and Poulenc; Dunster House Library...