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...looking as French as frogs' legs, the beret-bearing, 60-year-old composer arrived at Tanglewood, in Massachusetts' Berkshires, to be guest instructor in composition. Before he left Paris, he had received a cable from Tanglewood's Serge Koussevitzky: "We will perform your [opera] Le Roi d'Yvetot. Are you happy...
After the first performance, Composer Ibert was happy indeed. So were his students and an overflow audience in leafy Tanglewood's theater-concert hall. Most found the plot of Le Roi, which had first been given in 1930 in Paris' Opera-Comique, pleasantly satirical to the taste, if a little unsubstantial...
Ibert's music is more animated and fresh than his plot. A composer who owes a lot to Debussy and Ravel, he gives his orchestra a palette full of colors, his 40 singers (at Tanglewood, all students) arias and choruses with wit, tune and charm. Le Roi is the work of a king among craftsmen, if not of a composer working by divine right...
...Royal Family Exile Law, the Comte de Paris, 42, pretender to the nonexistent throne of France, saw his beloved Paris for the first time in 25 years. As he motored up to Royalist headquarters on the Rue de Constantine, a small, stouthearted band of the faithful cried: "Vive le roi!" Said the Comte: "I am happier than it is possible...
Rare Air. In Choisy-le-Roi, France, Maurice Fonctionnaz, charged with stealing a horse, explained to the court that he had only done it to help his whooping cough and asthma: "On a horse I'm a little higher than usual, and that lets me breathe...