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...Soirée Idol. The psychiatrist's patience and persuasion worked. A year later Rachmaninoff finished his Piano Concerto No. 2 in C Minor. It became his most popular work and, after the Tchaikovsky First Concerto, the most popular piano concerto in the repertory. As for Rachmaninoff, he went on to lead one of the few 20th century musical careers that can accurately be called spectacular. Only the Pole Josef Hofmann could be compared with him as a virtuoso pianist, and even Hofmann behaved deferentially around Rachmaninoff. No other concert pianist, except Prokofiev, had Rachmaninoff's stature...
...pair continue to take long walks, give parties and revel in private musical soirées with close friends. Back home from the hospital last week, Jackie was busy cooking and puttering. Despite her gloomy prospects, she has been practicing regularly with the determined air of a woman who has merely taken some time out. Her friends and associates insist that this is literally the case. Says Record Producer and Family Friend Suvi Raj Grubb: "I know the girl. She'll play...
Naturally, Français, Si Vous Saviez became a center of controversy overnight. The pro-government France-Soir praised it as "exciting" and "excellent," while Historian François Furet attacked it as a "monument of crafty demagogy" that sought to turn De Gaulle "from a savior into a scapegoat...
What with ball scenes and soirées, there are several abortive hints that Irene intended to mimic My Fair Lady, but for that one needs Shaw as well as scenery. One also needs the sly romantic sorcery of champagne and Irene is drunk on Ovaltine...
...known until next week's runoff.* But the pre-election opinion polls continued to suggest that Gaullist losses to the left-wing alliance of François Mitterrand's Socialists and Georges Marchais's Communists would be heavy. The final poll, published by France-Soir, gave the So cialist-Communist combine and other leftist parties 47 per cent of the electorate. The Gaullists trailed with 36% (as compared with their 46% popular vote in the 1968 elections); the centrist parties, led by Publisher-Politician Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber and Rouen Mayor Jean Lecanuet, took...