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Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). The English orchestra is Bach-size and plays excellently one of the most felicitous of the six Brandenburg concertos...
...airplane speed record returned to the U.S. last week after almost ten years in Europe. Veteran Army Test Pilot Colonel Albert Boyd, 40, made four three-kilometer (1.86 mi.) runs, with and against a light breeze, in a jet-propelled Lockheed P-80R over Muroc Dry Lake, Calif. His average speed: 623.8 m.p.h., only 7.8 m.p.h. faster than Britain's record, hung...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
Recent club elections resulted in the choice of Kilty as managing director, Blair M. Boyd, Jr. '48, assistant manager, and Clyde Eagleton, Jr. '48 as secretary, Joseph D. Everingham '49, Timothy G. Foote '50, and Temple will make up the new executive council...
Said the late Irish Critic Ernest Boyd: Bloy was "an abusive, ungrateful parasite, a past master of vituperation...