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Died. Lady Brown (Lilian Alice Roussel), 63, explorer, author (Unknown Tribes; Uncharted Seas), whose expeditions in Central America discovered the Chucunaque Indian tribe in Panama and excavated the lost Mayan city of Lubaantun in British Honduras; after long illness; in Rye, Sussex, England...
...program was probably the best so far in the current season of Sanders Theatre Concerts, at least from the standpoint of technical perfection. Georges Laurent demonstrated his marvelous precision and control of the flute by playing three difficult virtuoso numbers in succession. The Mozart quartet, K. 285 and the Roussel Serenade, Op 30 were played in combination with a small string ensemble; the Three Pieces by Walter Piston was a woodwind trio,--flute, clarinet, and bassoon. This composition, one of Piston's earliest, has a humorous grotesqueness and vitality apparently much appreciated by the Cambridge audience, for it received more...
Married. French Cinemactress Simone Roussel ("Michele Morgan"), 22; and Cinemactor Gerard William Marshall, 25; in Hollywood...
...Piston Concertino for Piano and Orchestra which the Boston Symphony played last week, for instance, has long passages in a distinctly lyrical mood. Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58, which was played at the Longy School last evening, shows how remarkably his style had softened since the time of his Violin Sonata and the works of his middle life. The same development is apparent in Prokofiev. The change from the acrid dissonance of works like the Scythian Suite to the out-and-out romanticism of the G minor Violin Concerto is one of the most striking examples of what...
Like all other composers Roussel has assimilated a number of outside influences, but so well have they been absorbed that in his mature works Roussel's style has an individual character which can be accounted for only by the inherent originality of his creative nature...