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Before the whole shaking structure fell to pieces, there was a taste of bravery for some of these men. Captain Count Ravel forced enemy units five times superior in numbers to retire two kilometers; Habe's division-the Thirty-fifth-held a deep wedge of the victorious German army of Sedan motionless until the final collapse of France-although it was only half-fed, undefended from the air, tortured with noise and silence...
Larry Adler buys standard $4.50 harmonicas by the hundreds, blows their brass "reeds" out of tune in no time. He broke a tooth in tootling Maurice Ravel's Bolero for a Columbia record which became a best seller in Europe and the U.S. Composer Ravel, who objected violently to the way some conductors (notably Maestro Toscanini) played his piece, took Larry Adler's drastic treatment of it meekly, asked him simply: "Why don't you play...
...Leopold Mozart that "Before God and as I am honest man, your son is the greatest composer I have ever known, personally or by name." And Haydn was right. The Budapest Quartet plays this music with impeccable balance and finish. . . . Another accomplished artist, Robert Casadesus, plays Ravel's "Valses Nobles et Sentimentales" in a Columbia album. You will not find in these waltzes the fruity charm of Chopin's waltzes, or the lilt of Johann Strauss, but rather an astringent wryness that almost belies the adjectives in the title. . . Finally, there is the love music from Tristan and Isolde...
...Otello" 8:30 "From Wall-Flower to Conga King"; six lessons from Madame in Dixon 8:45 "No Intervention for Now"; a talk by Professor William E. Hocking 9:00 "Nine O'Clock Jump" 9:30 An original play by the Radio Workshop 9:45 "Crimson Concert Hall" Ravel--I a Sibelius--2nd Symphony 10:45 Crimson News
...elegant, last-minute, Gallic primping: a summer at Fontainebleau near Paris. Dr. Walter Damrosch started the idea, after running a wartime school in which U. S. bandmasters took a high French polish. The late Composer Camille Saint-Saëns helped found, and the late Composer Maurice Ravel long figure-headed, Fontainebleau's American Conservatory, for which the French Government made available the Louis XV wing of the old royal palace. As many as 180 students worked with France's greatest music teachers there each summer...