Word: dears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relating to a musical memory that is all but a miracle. Bending down to his orchestral leader just before an opera performance was about to begin, Beecham whispered. "We are playing Figaro tonight, are we not?" "Oh,no, Sir Thomas." said the leader in alarm, "it is Seraglio!" "My dear fellow, you amaze me!" said Beecham. With that, he closed the Figaro score on his desk and proceeded to conduct the whole of Seraglio from memory...
...midmorning tea. Fierce, embarrassingly fierce, feminine cheers greeted the handsome bridegroom as he arrived, looking middle-aged-blithe and debonair in a dark blue suit, famed Homburg hat and white carnation. "He's not every girl's cup of tea," go iped one feminine appraiser. "Divorced, dear, and fifty-five." Her companion tattled back: "But he's so distinguished...
...mean a neurotic self-contempt or self-distrust, though there are forms of Christian, as of nonChristian, neurosis. The Christian realizes, on the one hand, that he is worthless apart from God, but on the other, that, as a child of God, he is infinitely precious, and dear to his Father. He appreciates the tremendous responsibility for action cast on him by the gift of life...
Aside from the big names so dear to Victor's catalogue, there are good performances by less famous musicians: Guido Cantelli and Milan's La Scala Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5; the late Fritz Busch with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony in Hoist's The Planets...
Fated. In Camden, N.J., a judge recommended divorce for Mrs. Joseph Lane after she testified that her husband kept a revolver and a bullet marked with her initials, told her: "This bullet is especially for you, dear...