Word: accompanimental
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earl Carroll's Vanities lured many of '31 away from Widener, the feature attraction being Dorothy Knapp, "The Most Beautiful Girl in the World." William "Pussyfoot" Johnson, former Prohibition leader, stoutly defended the College and exclaimed "Harvard men are not a bunch of inebriates!" Canada Dry, which advertised itself as...
Greenebaum's skill as a conductor was most apparent in Haydn's Trumpet Concerto in E flat. He kept a careful series of balances between orchestral sections, while giving a firm and yet compliant accompaniment to the soloist. Trumpeter Jane Rogers played the difficult concerto with great skill. Beyond merely...
The movie revolves around five thieves who plan and execute a neat robbery, using a little old lady's house as a temporary hideout. Their kindly landlady eventually discovers what the quintet actually is, but not one of the grim crooks summons enough nerve to eliminate this liability in old...
If Jee-sus came to your house to spend a day or tew . . . From the phonograph at a dime store record counter another voice in another version lilted with a bouncy, corn pone accompaniment: If He came unexpected, I wonder whut yew'd dew . . .
The only non-instrumental music on the program were some songs by Stephen Addiss '57. "Confitebor tibi," for baritone and 'cello, did not come off very well. The ungratefully jagged vocal line posed inevitable intonational difficulties. Since the music bore no relation to the text, I think the piece would...