Word: cello
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Boris Lovet-Lorski promptly enlisted in the Grodno Hussars, for no other reason than that he liked their gaudy uniform. He was wounded twice, hospitalized in Odessa, soon found himself a personal aide-de-camp to Alexander Kerensky. On the rise of the Bolsheviks, "Lorochka" fled Russia as a cello player...
...been rehearsed in sections. Conductor Erno ("Ernie") Rapée not only led the biggest symphonic orchestra ever assembled in Madison Square Garden through the 1812 and a Strauss waltz, but also performed the feat of arranging for it a trio Tchaikovsky originally wrote for piano, violin and cello...
...College of the City of New York, many of whose 22,000 politically-minded students seem to get their best fun at mass meetings or on picket lines. Completely antipodal is C. C. N. Y.'s President Frederick Bertrand Robinson, goateed, independent oldster who dresses conservatively, plays the cello, hates the rude manners of his undergraduates. After President Robinson characterized some C. C. N. Y. demonstrators as "guttersnipes" and trounced a dozen of the rowdiest of them with his umbrella, a committee of alumni solemnly found that he lacked the "necessary human qualities" for his job, suggested that...
Play begins with a Speaker (cello-voiced Morris Carnovsky) appearing in the orchestra pit. In logical, compassionate language he explains that this story is going to be concerned with a young boy who is caught and destroyed between the mill wheels of the upper and lower classes, with neither of which does he succeed in identifying himself. Here is the boy (a light finds the face of Clyde on the dark stage). Here is one girl (a light finds Roberta). Here is another (out of the darkness springs the face of Sondra). Both are equally young, equally beautiful. But Sondra...
Tonight in Sanders Theatre, the Boston Symphony is giving the sixth concert in its Cambridge series. The program, composed of numbers previously played in Boston, consists of Haydn's Symphony in E flat no. 99, Faure's "Elegie" for Cello and Orchestra, Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole", and the preludes "Lohengrin," "Tristan und Isolde," and "Die Meistersinger". The second half should certainly satisfy Wagner devotees; the first bears especial tribute the Dr. Koussevitzky's skill in program-making...