Word: vaurabourg
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...solid, massive-browed, bob-haired man, Honegger rode a New Haven locomotive, clad in beret and white overalls, on his last U. S. visit in 1929. Most of the time he lives in Paris. There Honegger shares a home not with a locomotive but a wife, Pianist Andree Vaurabourg. No Johnny-One-Note, he has written, besides Pacific 231, many a top-notch score, including two big, sombre Biblical works, Le Roi David and Judith. Among 20-odd cinema scores he did before Harvest, best-known in the U. S. were Mayerling and Pygmalion...
...treble clef, as he knew no other, at eleven some 30 sonatas, in his twenties one of the Group of Six in Paris, blustering fellows, so many thought, organized to acquaint the public with their music. Now Honegger remains supreme of the Six. His wife. Pianist Andree Vaurabourg-Honegger, plays his compositions, last week played with him his delectable Concertino. Pacific 231 he now calls Boom! Boom! Rugby, a sound picture of a football match, teems with driving conflict. It takes twelve minutes to play, and, strangely enough, uses no percussion...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra directed by Serge Kounsevitsky will give a concert in Sanders Theatre this evening at 8 o'clock. Arthur Honegger will be the guest conductor, assisted by Madame Andree Vaurabourg Honegger, pianist, and Miss Cobina Wright...
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