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Only two works were performed last Sunday--Five Pieces for violin and piano by Prokofieff, and Roussel's String Trio, Op. 58. The String Trio is one of Roussel's last compositions. Like all of his music it is marked by dissonant harmonic and contrapuntal effects. In spite of this, the first two movements have a lyrical lushness which will probably be considered saccharine in not so many years. The last movement is in a style which Roussel favored in his middle life. Dance-like and acridly dissonant, it has the same verve for which many passages in the Symphony...
...ripping vigor and angularity of this type of movement which removes Roussel somewhat from the spirit of the traditional French school. His ruggedness does not fit in with the extreme subtlety and delicacy of composers like Debussy. Ravel, and even Honegger. The difference in style is not surprising when one considers Russell's musical background. Though he spent much of his life in Paris, he was not a member of the Conservatoire, where almost all French musicians of the first rank have received their training. He was drawn farther away from traditional lines by the exotic influence of the music...
...Roussel: Quartet in D Major, Op. 45 (Roth String Quartet; Columbia: 6 sides). Sounding like César Franck double-distilled, the late Albert Roussel's subtle, tenuous music is voluptuously performed...
...Radio Department, who have for three months been exploring the field. They are described as having gathered news "from London, where television has failed dismally." Some member of your team has surely betrayed you here. Any of the many thousands of people, who watched on the television screen Bois Roussel make his winning dash in the Derby, or Eddie Phillips knocking out Ben Foord in the ninth round, or Donald Budge playing at Wimbledon, could have told him better. Television in England has its own difficulties to overcome; but it is now providing a daily service of excellent quality...
...though he might be the sixth favorite to win the Derby since the War. But suddenly, smack in front of the grandstand, a mysterious horse shot out from behind, passed Pasch, passed Scottish Union, streaked up the hill to the wire, four lengths in front. It was Bois Roussel, a French-bred 20-to-i shot, owned by Hon. Peter Beatty, son of the late great Admiral Lord Beatty and grandson of Chicago's Marshall Field. Owner Beatty, who received $46,140 first-place money, was as surprised as the rest of the world. Bois Roussel, whom...