Word: blue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Brown Medley," Columbia Medley," and a new medley of Yale songs, "Serenade for the Blue," all arranged by a former bandsman, John Finnegan '47, were played for the first time last fall...
Troops in armored cars occupied railways, telephone exchanges and border stations. They arrested El Kuwatly in Damascus' military hospital, routed Premier Khalid el-Azm out of bed and carried him off in his blue silk pajamas. By morning most of the cabinet was locked up in Damascus' Citadel, and Syrians got their first look at their new ruler...
...modern American symphonic music; even though Conductor Horenstein found his players "quick-witted and adaptable," he still had to rehearse them three times a day, between 8 a.m. and 10 p.m. He had waited until the day before the concert for his score of Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue to arrive, finally had to phone the U.S. embassy in Paris to borrow another and have it flown down. There were no mutes for the trumpets; he had to borrow felt hats to be used instead. The Casino's rosy-faced Artistic Director Georges Mockers, after being sent...
...once told George Gershwin, "Don't you ever try to imitate the Europeans . . . It's better to write good Gershwin than bad Ravel." And after hearing some piano preludes, songs from Porgy and Bess and An American in Paris, topped off by a rousing Rhapsody in Blue, Cannes connoisseurs found good Gershwin good enough for them. They let Conductor Horenstein & Co. know it with six noisy curtain calls. Concluded old Cannes Critic Edouard Berthier: "When you write that kind of music, you don't have to imitate anybody...
Harvard skiers defeated Yale for the second time this winter in the annual Harvard. Yale, Princeton Triangular Slalom held last Monday on the Hillman's Highway run of Mount Washington. In so doing the ski team maintained its undefeated post-war record against the Blue...