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...Manhattan School of Music), expects performances of the sort he put on last week to become a concert hall commonplace. Most composers, he points out, now write their percussion parts explicitly into the score, something they almost never did before the premiere of Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat in 1918, and orchestras have beefed up their percussion sections to four or five men. To mount last week's concert, Price had to rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that...
...century French painting, Jean Honoré Fragonard, described his own beginnings. A child of Provence, Fragonard was raised in the soft sunshine, on vine-covered hills, with the Mediterranean and the mountains as his horizon. He studied under Boucher, came to fame in Paris, was a friend of Madame du Barry and American Ambassador Benjamin Franklin. Almost nothing more is known of Fragonard's life. With typical breeziness, he signed himself "Frago." and painted himself just thrice. One self-portrait is in the Louvre, a second in his native Grasse, and the third (see color page), newly acquired...
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PRIX DE LA NOUVELLE VAGUE. A brand new prize, this one went to a first novel Christiane Rochefort's Le Repos du Guerrier. For a while Le Repos was in the running for Prix Femina, but the member of the female jury reportedly turned i down because they could not believe ii the alcoholic and amatory prowess of th book's hero as he seduces a young heiress Commented Novelist François Mauriac "It displeases me to play the role of virtuous father. But I ask this question Why should the history of the sex life...
...Goodyear Tire & Rubber was down 3.8% in sales for 1958, yet managed to hit record profits, up 2% to $6.08 per share. After a poor third quarter, Reynolds Metals did so well in the last quarter that it actually increased its full-year earnings slightly, to $3.25 per share. Du Pont had the best fourth quarter in three years, with profits 20% better than the same quarter of 1957, while Textron's net jumped 24% to a record $2.51 per share...