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Piercing Whistle. The rain-drenched crowd chanted a rhythmic "Algerie Franqaise" and accompanied the refrain with piercing three-short and two-long whistles. Ignoring the clamor, De Gaulle climbed from his car, waved cordially, and entered the town hall to address local dignitaries. When he emerged, the square reverberated with caterwauling shouts and whistles. De Gaulle ambled in his camel gait straight into the crowd at the point where the shouting was loudest. Startled Europeans fell back. Some were so nonplused that they paused in mid-scream to shake his hand...
...rare LP recording of one of the early Prokofiev symphonies all but forgotten in Western concert halls. The composer here is less acerbic, more expansive than in the Scythian Suite or Love for Three Oranges, and the score is curiously uneven, mingling occasional film-score banalities with splendid rhythmic inventions...
...made another, highly engaging effort to bring music closer to the people; he wrote several works for amateur performance, including The Second Hurricane, a short opera designed for high school singers. Now recorded for the first time (Columbia), Hurricane is a simple, melodic, resolutely folksy work with an exuberant rhythmic drive. Copland abandoned the role of "people's composer" when he "no longer felt the need of seeking out conscious Americanisms." In his postwar work, starting with the fine Third Symphony of 1946, he feels that he has been rediscovering the "bigger gestures" of his youth...
...artfully threaded passes to teammates to assist in another eight baskets and catapulted off the floor to grab a dozen rebounds in elbowing, hip-swinging skirmishes under the hoop. In everything he did, Robertson fascinated pro fans with the same quality that has always set him apart: a rhythmic style of play that seemed to float him around the floor...
...orchestra sounded fine in this place. The strings had considerable richness of tone and the wind section demonstrated considerable agility in tackling Debussy's tricky rhythmic figurations. The only section that suffered a bit from the non-mystical reading was the first Nuages. Here, clouds must somehow be evoked; the orchestral texture must be thick enough to mask entrances and cutoffs. If not, as happened last night, things tend to seem bleak and bit arbitrary...