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...Valentin Silvestrov, 27, a onetime engineer, is a graduate of the Kiev Conservatory. Though he came late to music, he is one of the most original of the new Soviet composers, has extensively explored the outer reaches of avant-garde music. His Spectrums was the first example of the chance style performed in Russia...
...ever there were two forgotten men of music, they are Raymond Lewenthal and Charles-Valentin Alkan. Lewenthal is a 42-year-old American pianist. Alkan was a French composer who died in 1888. Each in his own way is some thing of a curiosity piece. Together they constitute one of the most incredible melodramas in musical history. And as a result of what Lewenthal is doing for Alkan - and Alkan for Lewenthal - both are likely to become famous as well...
More than any other businessmen in Europe, Alsatian businessmen know that their prosperity is hinged to European unity, give Charles de Gaulle's attempt to disrupt the Common Market no support. Says Jean Wenger-Valentin, president of the Industrial Credit Bank of Alsace and Lorraine: "We are all true Europeans here." Amid all the bustle and renewal, one ancient Alsatian industry has survived almost unchanged: sturdy farm hands still hand stuff the gullets of Strasbourg's shiny geese, which produce Europe's best pate de foie gras...
...hermetically sealed bedroom at 44 rue Hamelin in Paris, the brilliant, untidy life of Valentin Marcel Proust, now 51, was drawing to a close For 17 years he had prophesied this event to his friends, who were amused. He had diagnosed the instrument pneumonia-before the doctors, even before it struck. Now he would have nothing to do with his foolish, fluttering rescuers. Weakly, vainly, he ordered his own brother, Dr. Robert Proust, from the room. After he died, those malevolent enemies of his life, sunlight and flowers, were admitted at last to his presence, along with a steady tide...
RAYMOND LEWENTHAL (RCA Victor), who has the steel wrists and flying fingers for the job, is largely responsible for a revival of interest in the piano works of Charles-Valentin Alkan...