CLAUDIA CARDINALE

Claudia Cardinale en Il magnifico cornuto (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1964). Música de Armando Trovajoli.

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NANCY MITFORD

It was one of those Paris afternoons when,

by some trick of the light,the buildings

look as if they are made of opaque, blue glass

The Blessing

There is a photograph in existence of Aunt Sadie and her six children sitting round the tea-table at Alconleigh. The table is situated, as it was, is now, and ever shall be, in the hall, in front of a huge open fire of logs. Over the chimney-piece plainly visible in the photograph, hangs an entrenching tool, with wich, in 1915, Uncle Matthew had whacked to death eight Germans one by one as they crawled out of a dug-out. It is still covered with blood and hairs, an object of fascination to us as children. In the photograph Aunt Sadie's face, always beautiful, appears strangely round, her hair strangely fluffy, and her clothes strangely dowdy, but it is unmistakably she who sits there with Robin, in oceans of lace, lolling on her knee. She seems uncertain what to do with his head, and the presence of Nanny waiting to take him away is felt though not seen. The other children, between Louisa's eleven and Matt's two years, sit round the table in party dresses or frilly bibs, holding cups or mugs according to age, all of them gazing at the camera with large eyes opened wide by the flash, and all looking as if butter would not melt in their round pursed-up mouths. There they are, held like flies in the amber of that moment - click goes the camera and on goes life; the minutes, the days, the years, the decades, taking them further and further from the happiness and promise of youth, from the hopes Aunt Sadie must have had for them, and from the dreams they dreamed for themselves. I often think that there is nothing quite so poignantly sad as old family groups.

The Pursuit of Love

Hay tres novelas de Nancy Mitford publicadas en castellano: A la caza del amor (The Pursuit of Love), Amor en clima frío (Love in a Cold Climate) y La bendición (The Blessing). La narradora de las dos primeras, Fanny Logan, reaparece en París en la también estupenda Don't Tell Alfred.

Annick Le Floc'hmoan escribió Las hermanas Mitford (Ces extravagantes soeurs Mitford). De Mary S. Lovell es The Mitford Girls, y su cartas se han publicado en edición de Charlotte Mosley, The Mitfords: Letters Between Six Sisters. Jessica Mitford tituló su libro de recuerdos juveniles Hons and Rebels. Este es uno de los párrafos:

The endless schoolroom talk of "What are we going to do when we grow up?" changed in tone. "I'm going to Germany to meet Hitler," Boud announced. "I'm going to runaway and be a Communist," I countered. Debo stated confidently that she was going to marry a duke a become a duchess. "One day he'll come along, The duke I love..." she hummed dreamily. Of course none of us doubted for a minute that we should reach the objectives we had set for ourselves; but perhaps seldom have childhood predictions materialized with greater accuracy.

De arriba abajo: Unity, Jessica, Nancy, Diana

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JACQUES IBERT

COMPLETE CHAMBER MUSIC WITH FLUTE

Trois pièces brèves
for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, French horn
01. I. Allegro
02. II. Andante
03. III. Assez Lent, Allegretto Scherzando, Vivo

04. Pièce, for solo flute

05. Entr' acte, for flute and guitar

Deux mouvements
for 2 flutes, oboe, clarinet and bassoon
06. Allant
07. Assez vif et rythmé

Deux interludes
for flute, violin and harp
08. Andante espressivo
09. Allegro Vivo

Jeux
Sonatine for flute and piano
10. Animé
11. Tendre

12. Aria, for flute, cello and piano

Le jardinier de Samos
for flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, cello and percussion
13. No.1 Overture
14. No.2 Air de danse
15. No.3 Prélude du 2ème acte
16. No.4 Prélude du 4ème acte
17. No.5 Prélude du 5ème acte

Histoires
for flute and piano
18. I. La meneuse de tortues d'or
19. II. Le petit âne blanc
20. V. Dans la maison triste
21. VIII. La cage de cristal
22. IX. La marchande d'eau fraîche
23. X. Le cortège de Balkis

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LENNOX BERKELEY

STRING QUARTETS Nos. 1 - 3

String Quartet No. 1, Op. 6 (1935)
01. Allegro - Moderato
02. Andante non troppo - Lento
03. Scherzo: Vivace
04. Theme and 6 variations: Moderato

String Quartet No. 2, Op. 15 (1941)
05. Allegro moderato
06. Lento
07. Allegro

String Quartet No. 3, Op. 76 (1970)
08. Allegro moderato
09. Allegro vivace
10. Lento
11. Molto vivace

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DIANA QUICK

Fotos de Cecil Beaton, 1979
National Portrait Gallery

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TINA LOUISE

IT'S TIME FOR TINA

01. Tonight Is the Night
02. Hands Across the Table
03. Snuggled on Your Shoulder
04. Embraceable You
05. I'm in the Mood for Love
06. Baby, Won't You Say You Love Me
07. It's Been a Long, Long Time
08. Hold Me
09. I Wanna Be Loved
10. Let's Do It
11. How Long Has This Been Going On?
12. Goodnight, My Love

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JUDY HOLLIDAY, GERRY MULLIGAN

HOLLIDAY WITH MULLIGAN

01. What's the Rush
02. Loving You
03. Lazy
04. It Must Be Christmas
05. The Party's Over
06. It's Bad For Me
07. Supper Time
08. Pass That Peace Pipe
09. I've Got a Right to Sing the Blues
10. Summer's Over
11. Blue Prelude

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APRIL MARCH

ACCOMPANIED BY VIC HAZELNUT AND HIS ORCHESTRA

1. Voo Doo Doll
2. Kooky
3. Stay Away from Robert Mitchum
4. How to Land a Man
5. It's Laughing

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