The Honour of France
|T is possible to argue that the bomb is merely the awful consummation of the fires and horrors we all carry inside us, and instead of resolving them within ourselves, we unleash them on the world in ever more monstrous forms. It is also possible to argue that these torments can be transformed into art, and so made fruitful, by the man of genius, Some such notion seized me after the magnificent performance of the great Ravel quartet by the Pascal people, who are, praise be, revisiting us, Their miraculous tone, richer even than when they were here last year; their beautiful, suave, civilised playing moved me to exaltation, The work in their hands had a_ golden heaviness which banished past and future, an attribute of all great art, which aims not only to reconcile us to the present, our only tangible possession, but to enrich it. Here is the honour of France, triumphantly vindicated for us. Chartres, Racine, Debussy, Gauguin, Renoir, Rousseau, Ravel. That is France.
B.E.G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 19
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173The Honour of France New Zealand Listener, Volume 34, Issue 873, 27 April 1956, Page 19
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