Word: tombeau
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tact for le tombeau. France pays her foreign fighters little ($3.89 a month for a recruit, $14.20 for a veteran of five years), and sends them to fight her toughest fights. No U.S.O. benefits or Coca-Cola bottling plants follow the Legion into battle. Old punishments like le tombeau (burial in sand up to the neck without food or water) and la crapaudine (24 hours in the sun with arms and legs tied together behind the back*) are no longer in official use, but discipline is still stern and often meted to a whole company...
Complete Piano Music of Ravel (Robert Casadesus; Columbia, 6 sides LP). A major undertaking by an artist who is at his best in French music. Casadesus delights in the pastel shadings of Le Tombeau de Couperin, ripples almost too effortlessly through the intricacies of Gaspard de la Nuit. For the four-hand Mother Goose suite and Habanera, he is assisted by his wife Gaby. Recording: good...
...novelties were by two members of the fabulous Couperin family of French musicians. A suite of seven short pieces by Louis Couperin opened the program. I especially liked Tombeau de M. de Blancrocher, a threnody for harpsichord with modern sounding dissonances and a fascinating bass line. Melville Smith, who is Director of the Longy School, played with great sensitivity, but avoided the exaggerated sentiment that usually mars works of this nature...