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Said's amateur passion, his violon d'Ingres, is music. He is an accomplished pianist; in April he gave duet recitals in New York and Washington with the Lebanese pianist Diana Takieddine. For some years he wrote music criticism for The Nation, and in 1991 he published a collection of his essays, Musical Elaborations. Today, afflicted by leukemia and acutely aware of the shortness of life, he is thinking of writing "a memoir of my pre-political life, which ended in 1967. What a strange world I grew up in! -- a vanished world now. It's very hard even...
...emphasize their concern, the police called for reinforcements from Paris and Marseille, and last week rounded up a swarm of clucking poules, from the $5 girls who hang out at the railway station to the $50 streetwalkers of the Rue Halévy. After a night in the violon (clink), the poules were warned to make themselves scarce. A bistro proprietor was gloomy about the police crackdown. "You watch," he said. "When the maquereaux run out of money, they'll take to robbing villas. It's better for Nice to have idle pimps than active robbers." He knew...
...Holst, famous English composer, now giving several courses in composition at Harvard, will conduct the orchestra in the recital of one of his own compositions, the St. Paul's Sutte for string orchestras. The program also includes a Vivaldo concerto that is seldom given, and a concerto for the violon-cello that has never been heard in Boston before will be played by R. U. Jameson '32, president of the Sodality. The program is as follows: Water Music Handel Concerto in B Minor for four violins Vivaldo Violin solos S. T. Romasskieicz '33 George Mateyo '34 David Band...
Johnny Boivin, the champion "violon-neux" of the province, bent to his old fiddle and played his songs. They were none of them insipid tunes or silly ones? he played the songs which women sing for spinning, the slow songs sung in the fields by men working, songs for stars and ploughshares...
...second in the series of concerts of Chamber Music under the auspices of the Department of Music will be held in the John Knowles Paine Concert Hall of the Music Building at 8.15 this evening. Mr. Felix Salmond, violon-cellist, will be assisted by Mr. Walter Golde, pianist...