Word: altos
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Lamb's composition is called "Longing", and, in accordance with the rules governing entries for the competition, it is written in English for soprano, alto, tenor, and bass parts, and the time required for its performance is slightly less than six minutes. Lamb is the holder of a Paine travelling fellowship, and is at present studying music in France...
...Slim, bespectacled Ben Eastman of Stanford: a 440-yd. race at Palo Alto in which he lowered Ted Meredith's 16-year-old world record by one second...
Miners and textile workers cut all telephone wires and cables out of Manresa, then seized thousands of pounds of dynamite from the Iberian Potash Works. Up and down the valley spread the revolution. Soviet flags went up over Berga, Alto, Gironella, Puigreig, Salient, Cardona. Excited crowds rallied to Leon Trotsky's old slogan: "EUROPE IS BURNING AT BOTH ENDS!!" Rich farmers and mill owners were kidnapped. Peasants were threatened with death...
...long enough, cannot help working for effects to the detriment of the musical substance. People well acquainted with the playing of Zimbalist, with Zimbalist himself, might have known that he would not fall into that error. His Daphnis and Chloe was simply wrought, unobtrusively lovely in the way the alto flute introduced the shepherds, then let the cellos and the violins carry them through the ecstasy of the love idyll...
Early in Thanksgiving week the bright New Mexican sky suddenly darkened. The white men's thermometers fell far below Zero. Before nightfall snow had banked five ft. high across the down trails from Cerro Alto and Santa Rita mesas, where the nutters were camped. Within a few days the Indians' small supplies were exhausted. Hungry ponies hunched head-to-head in the icy blast. Families crouched over small fires or cowered in the protection of their thin canvas wagon tops. It was decided that as many as possible should take the weakened ponies down to the Zuni settlement...