Word: bonelessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the first wave of his long, seemingly boneless hands, tall Conductor Mitropoulos gave them a sample of the moderns-cum-classics programs they could expect on many evenings this season. The opener: a monstrously brassy orchestration by the late Italian composer, Alfredo Casella, of the Chaconne from Bach's Suite No. 2 for Solo Violin. Beethoven's happy Fourth Symphony, delicately if fussily performed, smoothed down ruffled feathers momentarily, but Prokofiev's screaming Symphony No. 5 got some of them ruffled right up again...