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SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 2018
B OOK R EVIEW
“Manderley Forever”
by Tatiana de Rosnay
“Manderley Forever: A
Biography of Daphne Du
Maurier” by Tatiana de Rosnay
is the first nonfiction book by
this French novelist.
Daphne du Maurier’s most
famous work, “Rebecca,” is
beloved across the world, yet she
remains one of the most enig-
matic British novelists, her
heart’s secrets as shrouded in
darkness as the tales she told.
De Rosnay has been fascinat-
ed by du Maurier since child-
hood, when she read “Rebecca”
and was transfixed by the last
sentence “Last night I dreamt I
went to Manderley again.”
She wanted to unravel the
mystery of this author who, like
the characters she created, culti-
vated a life of secrecy and hid-
den passion. More than a simple
biography, this book has the
emotional spirit of a novel.
A bilingual novelist herself,
author of the best-selling
“Sarah’s Key” and with a mixed
Franco-British bloodline, de
Rosnay is the perfect candidate
to write a biography of du
Maurier in a beguiling and page-
turning way.
As an 11-year-old, de Rosnay
read and reread Rebecca, feeling
a kinship with this mysterious
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author, and becoming a lifelong
devotee of du Maurier’s fiction.
De Rosnay’s admiration is
palpable as she describes du
Maurier’s life in vivid detail:
from a shy 7-year-old in London,
to a rebellious 16-year-old at fin-
ishing school in Paris, to a 20-
something newlywed as she
wrote her first novel, to the
famous Menabilly mansion, du
Maurier’s most beloved home
and
the
inspiration
for
“Manderley” in “Rebecca,” and
finally, the Kilmartha house on
the sea, where, as a cantankerous
old lady, she spent the last of her
days.
Tatiana de Rosnay and
Daphne du Maurier: two women
caught up in the same romantic
passion.
With a rhythm and intimacy to
its prose characteristics of all de
Rosnay’s works, “Manderley
Forever” is a brilliantly com-
pelling celebration of an intrigu-
ing, hugely popular and, in her
time, critically underrated writer.
PoetryMusic
In honor of National Poetry
Month, the library is pleased to
present Chris Lee and Colleen
O’Brien, on Wednesday, April 4,
at 1 p.m., as they bring
PoetryMusic to the library.
PoetryMusic features the
world-class chamber jazz duo
performing poetry that has been
set to music and the poetry is
sun.
This multi-media perform-
ance includes an accompanying
slide presentation with each
poem projected on the screen
along with photographic images
so that the audience can follow
the written work with the poem
being sung. A wide variety of
poets are represented, ranging
from Emily Dickinson to sonnets
by William Shakespeare to
Chinese and Japanese poets to
the more contemporary Gary
Snyder.
For more than 30 years, Lee
and O’Brien have been perform-
ing together as the eclectic
chamber jazz duo Primal Mates,
and now their latest project is
PoetryMusic. Lee is known for
his playing of the vibe or vibra-
phone, among other instruments,
while O’Brien is a cellist and
vocalist, among her musical tal-
ents.
National Poetry Month was
inaugurated by the National
Academy of Poets in 1996 and
has been celebrated each April
since then. Over the years it has
become the largest literary cele-
bration in the world with poets,
libraries, schools, publishers and
booksellers celebrating poetry’s
vital place in our culture.
Florence Big Wave hosts
monthly Open Mic April 3
Florence Big Wave First
Tuesday Open Mic will be
hosted this month by the
Florence
Regional
Arts
Alliance, 120 Maple St., on
April 3, at 6:30 p.m.
Come ride the wave to this
Florence Big Wave Poetry
sponsored event with your
favorite poems, stories and
prose.
It’s free, everyone is wel-
come and there is a 5 minute
performance time limit.
For more information, email
bigwavepoetry@gmail.com.
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Newport Symphony delivers noteworthy bouquet
Newport
Symphony
Orchestra
R EVIEW BY
B URNEY G ARELICK
If we were making lists,
Liszt would be No. 1. Franz
Liszt’s Symphonic Poem No. 3
swirled with lush lyricism
punctuated by a circus band
marching ‘round the big top,
riding painted ponies over
meadows of four-leaf clovers,
like long-playing vinyl records
on the turntable of life.
Cole Porter recommended
never beginning or ending with
a ballad. The Newport
Symphony Orchestra (NSO)
ended with the exhilarating
Liszt and began with Josef
Haydn’s Symphony No. 26,
“Lamintatoine,” brisk bounc-
ing broomsticks followed by
long-bowed liturgical laments
defining the passion of Easter
week.
Liszt and Haydn were part of
the March 23 concert at the
Florence Events Center, the
fifth in SEAcoast
Entertainment Association’s
2017-18 season series.
But we’re getting ahead.
Haydn was preceded by a brief
delight, Maurice Ravel’s “Fairy
Garden,” in honor of David
Ogden Stiers who died recent-
ly. Stiers, best known as
Charles Emerson Winchester in
“M.A.S.H.,” the ever-running
TV show, was a Newport resi-
dent, a guiding light for the
NSO and a resident conductor.
Current NSO conductor
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Adam Flatt dedicated all three
weekend concerts in Florence
and Newport to Stiers.
It don’t mean a thing if it
ain’t got those strings! The
NSO filled the stage, including
a preponderance of strings
(first violins, second violins,
violas, six cellos and three big
bass fiddles), as well as clar-
inets, flutes, oboes, bassoons,
four French horns, trombones,
a tuba, a harp, kettle drums,
cymbals and percussion.
Flatt, a tall, affable gentle-
man, is a natural for keeping
the myriad musicians sharp,
measure for measure. Flatt is a
national rock star with regular
symphonic gigs in Alabama
and Colorado as well as
Oregon.
Following Haydn, wood-
winds and brass filed on stage
to join the strings for another
celebration of Easter week,
Richard Wagner’s “Good
Friday Spell” from his opera,
“Parsifal.” Parsifal is an
Arthurian knight in search of
the Holy Grail. If Haydn paint-
ed pastel pinks and yellows,
Wagner took his brush to the
undersides of leaves for bold,
dramatic intensity.
Then it was time for the glo-
rious cerulean blue of
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
The NSO performed Mozart’s
Clarinet Concerto K. 622 fea-
turing guest clarinetist Narek
Arutyunian.
The licorice stick comes in
many flavors — A, Bb, C, D,
Eb and bass. But Arutyunian
chose the basset clarinet,
longer and heavier with a range
from high piccolo to lowdown
baritone sax.
We know it’s difficult to play
Mozart, but any exertion is hid-
den by brilliant, joyous
melodies. Therefore, it was dis-
concerting to view the perspir-
ing image of John Belushi,
loosening his tie and mopping
his brow while blowing the
licorice stick.
But we were told as children
not to judge a book by its
cover. So we zipped our lips
and listened. What a golden
reward ensued! We’d won the
lottery with this clarinetist’s
dazzling digital dexterity!
The concerto has three
movements, and Arutyunian’s
performance was so exciting,
the crowd couldn’t refrain from
applause after the first and the
second. The final movement
met with a standing ovation.
Arutyunian left the stage and
returned with a different clar-
inet to play a Spanish caprice.
Had his fingers been race hors-
es, they would have crossed the
line in a stupendous photo fin-
ish!
‘Twas a grand night for
licorice, and Liszt, with the
entire orchestra on deck, was
the icing on the cake.
The Newport Symphony
Orchestra delivered a flourish-
ing bouquet of daffodils. The
night was a triumph.
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