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Word: auditorium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another factor in making music come to life is the use of the proper sized auditorium. In Paine Hall, Handel's Concerto Grosso Opus 6 no. 4 was not dwarfed accoustically as it might have been in Sanders Theater. Senturia drove his strings to the kind of relentless rhythm that can make Baroque music so exciting. While the accuracy of the violins was not quite 100 percent, the counterpoint was clear and the pacing excellent...

Author: By Stephen Addiss, | Title: The Bach Society Orchestra | 10/30/1956 | See Source »

...Michigan, in heavily industrial (and heavily unionized) Flint, nobody seemed to care much. Some 3,500 turned out to hear him call Nixon "shifty," "rash" and "inexperienced," a "man of many masks." (Tom Dewey had drawn 5,000 the night before.) The crowd in the one-third empty auditorium responded politely: although the words were harsh, Stevenson's manner was courteous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DEMOCRATS: The Presidential Special | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...anxiety lest the voters mistake the issues that were being raised. The Democrats seemed determined to make the draft and the H-bomb the issues on which they would win or lose. In that case, the U.S. had to understand its choice. In Portland's aging civic auditorium, he spelled it out: "Hard sense and experience versus pie-in-the-sky promises and wishful thinking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: REPUBLICANS: Happy Traveler | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

...recent fire in Memorial Hall, the first concert will be held in Kresge Auditorium at M.I.T...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: B.S.O. Tickets Still Available For Sanders Theatre Series | 10/26/1956 | See Source »

Music at M.I.T. (Unicorn). Recorded in M.I.T.'s new Kresge Auditorium (TIME, Dec. 26), records in this series are hard to beat for sheer aural excitement. Roger Voisin and the remarkable brasses of the Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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