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Orange (end of July). The well-preserved Roman Theater is a setting chiefly for dramatic events and ballet. Marseille was proud to inaugurate France's First International Ballet Festival in the summer of 1954 (late June to mid-July). Menton (early August). This far corner of France offers glamorous outdoor musical events in the square in front of the Church of St-Michel.

Orange (end of July). The well-preserved Roman Theater is a setting chiefly for dramatic events and ballet. Marseille was proud to inaugurate France's First International Ballet Festival in the summer of 1954 (late June to mid-July). Menton (early August). This far corner of France offers glamorous outdoor musical events in the square in front of the Church of St-Michel. Besanfon (early September). Music and drama, in this seldom visited Jura city, is a sort of curtain-down to France's summer festival season.

Closer relations with European countries, the introduction of opera, the founding of many music schools, the organization of orchestras, choirs, and musical societies, and, later, the presentation of musical stage productions and the availability of the phonograph and the radio succeeded over several generations in changing me musical consciousness of the urban centers. Nevertheless, the churches, with few exceptions, continued to use Byzantine music, and the vil-kgers still sang their folk songs.