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...Satie's published compositions that is wholly adapted to the conditions of the concert room. In this production, which will be heard for the first time tonight, Satie bases the music on extracts from the Dialogues of Plato. It is also one of the soberest pieces that the singular Parisian has set to music...
...could not give, it filled him with a sense of guilt. He sank deeper and deeper into self-accusation. He came to the idea that his whole life had been wrong. He turned against everything that formerly he had held beloved. He, priest and friend of popes, conceived this singular notion-that the Catholic Church was secretly in league with the Free Masons. That turned him against the Church, and he announced that he was going to become a Protestant. A Calvinist congregation in Rome received the head of the Vatican Choir with some enthusiasm, but soon found embarrassment...
...Gauthier is the sort of person who arouses curiosity and imagination. She is a little French Canadian, dark, eager eyed and sprightly. Her movements are rapid and unaffected. A glance at her reveals a singular flame of honesty and intelligence. She sings with a pretty voice and a simply astounding amount of understanding, artistry and grace. With the sort of music she sings, a mere correct intonation of the ear-confounding sounds is an astonishment. In the ensemble of impressions, this little woman wears a strangely exotic...
...Neapolitan songs. These are peculiarly characteristic of Naples, which has a mood unlike that of any other city. Its citizens have certain mannerisms of speech, bearing and thought that are exceedingly difficult for the outsider to produce. Singers from the north of Italy try vainly to catch the singular nuances of the Neapolitan songs. They sing the notes correctly, and achieve about the effect of an orchestra of good musicians playing jazz-accurately on the beat. But when Isa Kremer intones the chants of Naples, you might easily mistake her for a Neapolitan...
...story of the red path of hatred, the gradual poisoning of a man's mind and body and soul. And yet, with all his singular craft and dark poetic power, Mr. Freeman is not entirely convincing here...