Bastille Day
AM inclined to think that the Bastille Day programme from 3YC was put together in rather a hurry. It was called Two Frenchmen, and the two concerned were Debussy and Rostand. Of their work we heard the rather familiar,
but lovely, "L’Apres Midi" prelude, and then love scenes from Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac, These two Frenchmen are undoubtedly very worthy artists, but I cannot for the life of me connect Debussy’s cloudy, soft-
lighted music, or Rostand’s swaggering, age of chivalry dialogue, with the savage surge of revolutionary France. Two Frenchmen-yes, but not two Frenchmen representative of the storming of
the Bastille.
G. leF.
Y.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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107Bastille Day New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 528, 5 August 1949, Page 11
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