Word: rivier
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Française Nestlé, makers of chocolate and prepared baby foods, claims complete independence of the parent company in Switzerland "except for the exchange of friendly ideas in the realm of publicity and advertising." One of their friendly ideas was the Old Masters Series which Swiss Artist Louis Rivier suggested to the Swiss company. Artist Rivier set to work, produced four pictures. Nestlé arranged for them to be printed in L'lllustration at an advertising rate of about $2,250 a page...
Swiss Artist Rivier is even more. He is the theatrical critic of the Gazette de Lausanne. He has decorated the Protestant Church at Auteuíl, France, has completed 1,000 square meters of murals for Lausanne University. For his fourth advertisement Artist Rivier took Jacques Louis David's famed portrait of beauteous Mme Recamier reclining on her chaise longue, put a naked 16-month-old baby on her knees, had her holding out a full nursing bottle...
...accompany the ballet of the same name. It is generally regarded as Schmitt's best known orchestral work and by incorporating the lurid scenario into the music gives both brilliance and dramatic atmosphere. Unlike many modern orchestrations, it does not attempt realistic methods (as, for example, did the Rivier overture in the program for last week...
...newcomer to America, Dmitri Mitropoulos, leader of the Athens Conservatory, comes as conductor to the Boston Symphony during the next two weeks. His program for Friday and Saturday as well as Monday evening consists of Beethoven's "Overture to Leonore No. 2," "Overture for a Don Quixote" by Jean Rivier, Debussy's three symphonic sketches "La Mer", and Strauss's "Symphonia Domestica". Rivier is a modern French composer whose works have received considerable although not unusual praise in Paris during the past eight or ten years. His "Overture for a Don Quixote" is one of his latest endeavors...