Symphony for a MassacreFive longtime partners in a Paris gambling dive saw a retirement opportunity come up and it involved pooling their cash resources for a massive narcotics buy. It sounded sweet until one of them got greedy and his plan to pocket it all started deadly dominoes of suspicions, betrayals, and double crosses. Jacques Deray's crackling crime tale stars Jean Rochefort, Claude Dauphin, Michel Auclair, Charles Vanel, Jos Giovanni, Michle Mercier.

Margaret Bonds

Both works are firmly established in the concert repertoire

both on-stage and on-record

was finding it's way into southern German music primarily through the work of Johann Kaspar Ferdinand Fischer

but on Patan's album

1975 is when reality hits

Towards the end of the 1940s he returned to the symphonic genre

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Concerto Koln has not forgotten him

a slide show of classic live performance photos

The Mid-East

but later expanded to include keyboardist Kyle Simmons