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Died. Mme. Hellé Bonnet. 61.,chic. Greek-born widow of former (1944-55) French Ambassador to the U.S. Henri Bonnet, whose World War II Gaullist activities she supported by opening a millinery shop in New York and whose postwar diplomatic success she ably furthered by restoring the dilapidated French embassy as the elegant focus of Washington society; of cancer; in Paris...
...traveling exhibition of gouache cutouts done by Henri Matisse in his last years has been admired lately in Manhattan and Chicago, but at San Francisco's Museum of Art last week the show had a unique and poignant meaning. One room contained a separate exhibit of more than 75 items, ranging from oils to tiles, that were also mostly by Matisse. Though now owned by many collectors, these treasures were once a part of one of the earliest and most significant collections of 20th century art. They belonged to San Francisco's Michael and Sarah Stein (brother...
Singing magnificently in her rich, bronzelike voice, she began with O del mio dolce ardor, by Gluck, went on to Quella fiamma che m'accende, by Benedetto Marcello, Ständchen and Zueignung, by Richard Strauss. Invitation au Voyage and Le Manoir de Rosamonde, by Henri du Pare, Boatmen's Dance, by Aaron Copland. Out in the Fields with God, by William Dawson...
...good of the Paganini Quartet to retrieve Ginestera, currently Argentina's leading composer, from the limbo to which serious Latin American composers are relegated. Ginestera's Quartet No. 1 (1950) attempts, according to Henri Temianka, first violinist, to evoke ancient Aztec and Incan civilizations. It combines the performance effects of Ravel and Debussy, the rhythmic drive and insistence of Bartok, and a peculiar harmonic clarity which could be interpreted as simple-mindedness. Both the first and second movements, in spite of constant, rapid, and vigorous rhythms, remain static on D. Open fifths, played tutti, reinforce the strength of the rhythms...
...Congo, Cyrille Adoula, 38, delighted a White House luncheon party by toasting the U.S. for "having scored a bull's eye" with its Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal's coat of arms...