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...best one can-at a thousand concerts. Every night one hears the same tired instruments making the same tired noises. A cry from the violin, a boom from the drum. For 150 years the only new instruments to be invented are the saxophone, the musical saw, musique concrète and electronic devices. Why? In the United States, of course, there is TV. But what do we French do with our nights...
...last, Padre Gonzalez Salas rose from his bruised and bleeding knees to offer a Te Deum of thanksgiving for the passengers of the Pinta, not one of whom had suffered so much as a scratch in the rough landing. Then the padre turned to his companions. "I am very happy," he said...
...Russian museums of modern art were stocked by Czarist merchants who wintered on the Cóte d'Azur in the balmy days before World War I and were among the first to patronize school-of-Paris art. Leningrad's Hermitage Museum and Moscow's Pushkin Museum between them remain the world's greatest repository of early Matisse paintings...
...different kind of Waterloo. "His Grace," spits Harriette, ". . . has written to menace a prosecution if such trash be published . . . When Wellington sends the ungentle hint to my publisher, of hanging me, beautiful, adored and adorable me, on whom he had so often hung! Alors je pends la tête! . . . Good-bye to ye, old Bombastes Furioso." Then she proceeds to relate how the duke, fresh from his triumphant campaigns in Spain, hurried straight to her house one night only to find Argyll there before him. When Wellington knocked, Harriette dressed Argyll in her nightcap and dressing gown and sent...
...lute-shaped soundbox. The gadgets were known as the "Mixturtrautonium" and the "Ondes Martenot." Both produce more or less musical tones electronically, and they were to be featured soloists in a concert for the delegates to the first International Congress of Electronic Music and Musique Concrète...