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Word: bax (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...solo records for Victor, and the Primrose Quartet, of which he is boss and viola player, had just muscled in on the front rank of U. S. chamber-music organizations. For him a half-dozen of the world's leading composers (including Paul Hindemith, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Arnold Bax, William Walton) were busy writing viola sonatas, viola concertos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Viola and Primrose | 11/27/1939 | See Source »

...thing would not go down with the untutored public. Wood ignored their advice, continued to give his audiences small doses of modern music, gradually increasing them with the years. That the works of Scriabin, Sibelius, Bela Bartók and such English composers as Vaughan Williams, Gustav Hoist, Arnold Bax and William Walton are now popular pieces in the repertory of all British symphonic orchestras is largely due to his efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Jubilee | 10/17/1938 | See Source »

...chin down, Conductor Barbirolli swayed his shoulders delicately through the lyrical passages, hunched forward to demand a pianissimo, twitched his kinetic torso and wagged his flying tails to call for quickened tempi. He guided the orchestra carefully through the tenebrous but imitative twilights of a symphonic poem by Arnold Bax, The Tale the Pine-Trees Knew. Like Barbirolli, to whom it is dedicated, the Bax piece had never been heard in the U. S. and on the whole proved an unhappy choice. Critic W. J. Henderson of the New York Sun found that "what those pine trees knew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Philharmonic Freshman | 11/16/1936 | See Source »

...Boldly Playwright Clifford Bax offered this week at a London little theatre his new piece The King and Mistress Shore. Jane Shore was the mistress of King Edward IV and after his death was, by order of King Richard III, frog-marched through the streets of London to be reviled by the populace and finally imprisoned for what was declared to be the crime of "committing adultery with His Late Majesty." The Lord Chamberlain, who acts as Britain's play censor, has no power to ban productions in such little theatres where entrance is supposed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Queen Wallis' | 11/9/1936 | See Source »

...there is every reason to believe that the occasion will be a most satisfying one. The program combines the virtues of the new and the old and includes the Brahms Sonata in E minor for Cello and Piano and a recent Sonata for Cello and Piano by Arnold Bax, receiving its first American performance on Wednesday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Music Box | 3/12/1936 | See Source »

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