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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANÚARY 23, 1958.
IGOR
He baffles the critics
and blends the blues
by LES ARMOUR
Some say Stravinsky has to rich landowners and there was depth, that he is a disciple not plenty of mancy for Igor's educa- of the il-for-art's-zako" school tion. but of the art-for-mchey's-salta school.
Neliher criticism has any foumulation. But it is true that he has always composed music for a living, has never fancied himself as a man starving in a garrett, and he is not the sort of man who believes that the com- poser should sit back and wait for some great Intuition overcome him.
to
Music to him in a craft which
He first studied under Nimaky Korsakov, and gave every op pearance of eetiling down in the Russian tradition. When Rimsky
Korsnicov ddled
1000, Stravinsky, just 20, went to Paris with Diaghilev and the flussian Ballet.
His first great triumph enme wil "The Firebird", u ballot produced in 1910.
"The Firebird" atill
had
STRAVINSKY is a Russian-borne paftices day in and day out, prome of the Russian romanities
naturalised Frenchman turned his ability. naturalised American.
And it shows.
He goes which in
#marked Russian scientist He talks with accent, gesticulates like a Frenchman- and dresses like an American.
Not long ago, he was turned away from the Opera House in Rome because he was not in evening dress. Nobody in Los Angeles, where he lives now, goes to concerts or the opera in evening dress. In Rome they have different ideas-but the management nonetheless apologised handsomely.
year, to the best of but it also had the lightness which and sureness of touch Paris audiences demanded. about it in a way suggestive of The For 4 tume Stravinsky, us well as the artist. ensconced on Lake Geneva, Passages are underlined In seemed to his friends to have various coloured inks, tone almost a dual personality. One combination calculated mathe was thoroughly Russian matically.
devoutly Eastern Orthodox, manner, desperately grave in Stravinsky does not work fast, "Les Noces", for instance, a carnest. The other was thorough- ly French voluble, happy work composed around a single
crowds among
friends, of complete. To the listener, sounds so simple that I could Gradually, he seemed to be- have been composed in a
few come moro French and leas
Russian. Finally, he But its very simplicity-music French citizenship in 1934. stripped to the bone, und so steck thri it is almost a musical When the World War I broke
he
IN America, guided missile-is the results of put
Locturing years of concentration.
at Harvard, and he At the end of No detail is too small to de- decided to stay. mand his wholehearted attention. the war, he acquired American When he collaborated with citizenship and made his per-
home
modest Cocteau on "Oedipus Rex," he manent went back to school to learn suburban house in Hellywood. Latin so that he could get the Hollywood
hlm provides with feel of the theme.
almost another dimun- Stuvinsky WEB born ut ston of ¡ife. There 13 the goudiness, Oranienbom, on the Gulf of something in Finland and his early to was the noise, the zest, which spent there and in St. Peters provides him with a fund 21 burg. His family were moderately experience to draw upon.
melodic line, took ten years to seemingly..carefree.
1+
weeks.
his
I Stravinsky were on ordinary man, changes of nationality might not matter. Most men who change their passports du not change much with them.
But Stravinsky does,
And so does is music.
His early works display the characteristic heavy romanticism of Russian musle. The works le composed while he was living in France and in Geneva are as French as Paris.
And his later works show the Influence of his Hollywood address,
All this, of course, has long infuriated the crities who prefer their composers to fit into neat pigeonholes. They give every appearance to think of objecting strongly to being maile anew every few years,
The Angel
the
IVING quietly in the French colony of Madagascar is the wife of an officer in
the
Colonial, Administration, Genevieve de Galard, who is fixed in many people's minds as a contemporary
Florence Nightingale.
It was she who la 1954 in) a milliary disaster which sealed the fate of French rule in Indo- China became known all over the world
"The Angel of Dien Bien-Phi."
Service.
DA
Wis
took
looks back on
hell of Dien-Bien-Phu
FONSAGRUMETOK
22.. has happy there: the dedicated way Today, Genevieve, retired from the Ariny Nursing of lie of her husband suits her
band sun own modest married perament. Anyone knowing her In June 1950 she
would find her
present life Captain Jean de Hraulme,
of France's top mill- completely in character. graduate
The: Genevieve tay academy St Cyr wedding in Paris was nitende from an
Tublic.
They
Madagascar for the past
ப
ancient
Once she was the only woman in a bombarded. doomed French fort... now she is an Army officer's
3 wife doing welfare work in Madagascar
thick
and
This was the end of the “air bridge" with Hanol, and hers was the last rescue airplane to reach Dien-Bien-Phu
It was the beginning of an ogonising experience both for her and for the world which watched,
2e scenes of horror in that shell-blusted warren achieved a positively Dantesque quality. In mlus: of mud-engulfed the. three-tiered shelters, alied- witle wounded this young woman the steadfastness
TRAGIC
de Calard comes land-owning by the President of the Re- French family, most of whose
truxery were in male
Arm have lived
year officers. villa After studying English at the
first like slaving Sorbonne she became
at registered stale nurse and then signed a two-year terms of en- the 1stment as a nurse with the Jocal French hospital and French forces in Indo-China. engages in welfare work. She is She reached Indo-China just a some 1,200 French officers and and exploded in flames,
few months before the futerul NCOs, and the rest consisted battle of Dien-Bien-Phu begun, largely of Colonial troops
Dich-Bien Phu -- the name hard-bitten Foreign Legion tolls like a bell and this one naires. folled the end of a French
The battle started the first walked with Empire in the Far East,
week of March, and it was then of a Nightingale at Sebastopal In Paris the air was with recriminations, The that Genevieve volunteered to they into the besieged garrison End bungled,
in one of the battered Red Generale. politicians had led and it huma Cross Dakotas which were fly there was defeatism and coilu-
At this time the deals in ing through enemy ack-ack to sion with the enemy.
these
shelters underground evueuate wounded. So ran
Une sordid list of
amounted to something ilke 40 a charge and countercharge after
The airplanes did not even day. The emergency eletriclty the most sombre French mili- stop their engines on landing supply had long since run tary disaster since 1940.
The wounded were hastily und finally candles were ration- But even as the search
for holsted
the most on board under con-, ed for only scapegoats
Was at its height, tinual shellfire and the air operations. Elimmer of glory shone through planes turned round and
Most of the pauents, even the thick fog of battle.
those turned to Hanoi.
who were not delirious The name of Genevieve de Galord was on everybody's p. She was the only woman in the doomed garrison of 20,000 mes. The garrison was made up of
in a small three-rurines and they look
there for another two years least,
-Genevieve helpa oul
0
row
out
serious
shelters for
Genevieve made more than lost all faith in time. 20 of these fearless journeys But worse was to come,
The underground before the inevitable happened.. Five minutes after an airplane overflowed with wounded, had landed it was hit by a shell many of whom no bunks could be found. Col. Graubin, the chief surgeon, was carrying out as many as 60 major operations a day, before ilus offensive took place.
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Now he and his staff were frankly left with no option but to let many of the dying die.
For Genevieve these were in her own words, "the most tragie moments of my life to
600 men suffering for hours before I could give them any help."
On May 7 Dien-Bien-Phu finally fell and in its shelters were nearly 2,000 desperately wounded men. To Genevieve the fortress's capture merely meant a transfer of duty from the night of the sholtera to the day above ground.
It was rendered the IROTO hideous by the fact that just as the garrison was captured, morg than half of the underground the corridors collapsed under bombing. This set out a string of explosions which mingled with the screams of trapped Inen.
TRIUMPH
It was four days after the foll of Dlen-Bien Phu thuat the tom
that munist radio announced Mile Galard was alive. At the ovacuation centre she refused all offers of evacuation until the last of the wounded had been evacuated.
Eventually, on strict orders from the general commanding at Hanol sho left Dien-Blen- Phu after 59 daya of nightmaro existence. She arrived in Honol to be amazed at the spectacular welcome she received there.
Thero followed a triumphant return to Paris and a visit arranged against her will by the French government to the US.
Sinoo then
natural | modesty, coupled with her good senso has brought an cad: to a Wave of hero-worship
her
which
might have proved dangerous to a lesser wungan.
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around the world
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