Word: vins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began to experiment with the rhythms of new music, and five years later made contact with Schoenberg's 12-tone techniques. It was an elastic collision: "I may say that, while I came under Schoenberg's influence, I opposed him with all my musical sensibility." Thus, in Le Vin Herbe, a dramatic oratorio on the Tristram legend first performed in 1942, he combined 12-tone series with chordal sequences, and in his passion oratorio Golgotha, he decomposed a basic 12-note series into harmonically related, sequential sections...
...added to a dossier on the restaurant that dates back to its opening in 1950. The Michelin inspectors are a kind of Palate Guard chosen for their iron digestions, sensitive palates and impeccable integrity. In keeping with the Guide's slogan. Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin (roughly, no pull, no payoffs), they arrive alone and unannounced, sample food and wine, reveal their identities only when they have finished eating and ask to inspect the kitchens. A Michelin inspector is usually treated as respectfully as an FBI man in the U.S., though one irate restaurateur once protested...
From time to time, they open their eyes a slit, reach for a hot glass of Glühwein (in Austria or Switzerland), vin chaud (in France) or vino brûlé (in Italy...
Even the fine-wine producers will admit that some of the cheap table wines are sound value for their price. Gallo's Paisano, for example, is a passable vin ordinaire, even by French standards, and so is Petri's Viva Vino. For quality wines, the experts stick to the Napa Valley for reds, Livermore for whites and Sonoma for Rhines. Among the leaders: Louis Martini's Zinfandel and Folle Blanche, Inglenook's Cabernet Sauvignon, Wente Brothers' Sauvignon Blanc and Pinot Chardonnay, Charles Krug's Camay and Camay Beaujolais. California's sparkling wines...
Patrons of A Shot in the Dark must be prepared to swallow some dialogue with the rugged flavor of vin ordinaire, and the end of the play tends to dribble away. But most of this Gallic murder-comedy is estate-bottled, kept at a steady bed-and-courtroom temperature and poured to a farce-connoisseur's taste...