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from the Festival du Centre de Documentation de
Musique Internationale
Henry Huguenin
(baritone)
Henry Merckel (violin)
Odette Turba-Rabier (soprano)
Solange Michel (mezzo-soprano)
Paul Derenne (tenor)
Xavier Depraz (bass)
Choeurs de la
Radiodiffusion-Television
Frangaise
(Continued in next column)
Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion-Television
Frangaise
Conducted by Manuel Rosenthal
Part 1
From the Grand Theatre des Champs-EIysees, Paris
The Centre de Documentation de Musique Internationale, founded in 1951, has its headquarters in Paris; the president is the French composer and conductor, Pierre Capdevielle. The Centre's aim is to make available a comprehensive library of contemporary and ancient music (in manuscript, microfilm, published, or recorded form) with a catalogue of all information necessary for research or performance. It has delegates all over the world, publishes a quarterly bulletin covering contemporary musical activity, and has organised a number of exhibitions. This concert is the first of ten given in collaboration with RTF. D.C.

Contributors

Unknown:
Henry Huguenin
Violin:
Henry Merckel
Soprano:
Odette Turba-Rabier
Mezzo-Soprano:
Solange Michel
Tenor:
Paul Derenne
Bass:
Xavier Depraz
Conducted By:
Manuel Rosenthal
Conductor:
Pierre Capdevielle.

of Dante Alighieri
The first cantica of the Divine Comedy, translated into English triple rhyme by Laurence Binyon
A reading in six parts
Part 3 (Cantos 12-17): The Seventh Circle of the violent; the River of Blood (tormenting the violent against others); the Wood of the Suicides; the Ring of Burning Sand (tormenting the violent against God, Nature, and Art); the poets meet the monster Geryon, guardian of the Eighth Circle; they descend into the great abyM on his back.

Contributors

Unknown:
Laurence Binyon

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