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...tale of L'Aveugle which has been inhabiting me for so many years and which I was giving up hope of writing." Later he put it into the form of the diary of a pastor living in the Swiss Alps. He gave it the name of Symphonie Pastorale, a recit that frames the story of a blind girl with the judgments, which often appear to be self-deceptions, that the pastor's Christianity allow...
Though the movie is not seen through the veil of the pastor's judgments, it includes them. So perhaps it runs closer than the recit to Gide's first-imagined tale, which may have been quite simple. The pastor discovers the blind girl when he is called to the bedside of her dying grandmother. The pastor believes it is not by accident that he has come upon the girl, and understands it as his holy obligation to take her home and rescue...
Among other things, Voltaire's Candide might have made a fine musical comedy. The book is a terrifically sophisticated, funny recit in which nothing is final--least of all the conclusion. But now that a horde of famous individuals has brought its talents to bear upon Candide, the spectacle is appalling. The new musical is not like the old book or other musicals or anything, except maybe a bad circus...
...program will be: Harvard March "Our Director" Bigelow Symphony No. 12 (B-flat Major) Haydn Concerto for Piano and Orchestra, opus 18 Rachmaninoff (First Movement--Moderato) Mr. Slontmsky, soloist Intermission Soprano Solos a. Recit et Air from "L'Eafant Prodigue". Debussy Mr. Slonimsky, conducting b. Impressions Slonimsky Le Fuite de la Lune Silhouettes Valse Lento Delibes La Fille du Regiment (entracte) Donizetti Rakoezy March (from "Damnation of Faust") Berlioz Fair Harvard
...choir sang the following: Magnificat. Ed. A. Clare; Come now and let us reason together, H. W. Wareing; Sing the praises (Recit. and aria) from Mendelssonhn's Hvmu of Praise. Mr. George Want was the soloist...
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