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Heidi Ratner, flute, with Barbara von Schleinitz, piano, perform works of Poulnc, Roussel and Bach. Dunster Library...
Alexandria Quartet. Mozart Flute Quartets (in A and D); Beethoven: Serenade for Flute, Violin, Viola; Roussel: String Trio. Free. Sunday, March...
...have played the part with particular bravura in Britain and France. Climaxing a long contest, they outbid the U.S.'s Sherwin-Williams Co. to win a controlling interest in Berger, Jenson & Nicholson Ltd., a major British paint producer. In France, Hoechst executives encouraged a merger of two concerns, Roussel-Uclaf and Centrale de Dynamite, which together sell about $200 million worth of Pharmaceuticals a year -or almost as much as Rhone-Pou-lenc, the French pharmaceutical leader. Hoechst has ties to both concerns and will come out owning 20% to 25% of the merged company...
This summer, marking the centenary of Vuillard's birth, Paris' Musée de L'Orangerie has mounted a retrospective of his works (see color opposite), which are displayed along with those of his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...
Subtle Materials. Vuillard was the greater artist, but it was his schoolboy friendship with Roussel that steered him to painting. When Roussel enrolled with an art teacher, Vuillard decided that he also wanted to be a painter, and succeeded in enrolling at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Unhappy with its rigid academicism, he transferred to the somewhat freer atmosphere of the Academic Julian, where he met Bonnard, Maurice Denis and Vallotton. Calling themselves the Nabis (Hebrew for prophets), they formed a group to perpetuate Gauguin's theories on painting, Mallarme's on poetry. "To name an object...