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I fall to see the reason for ending the concert with Benjamin's Overture to an Italian Comedy. Though the performance was good, it is a slight piece and would have been far less of a sacrifice us a warmer-up than the Handel Concerto Grosso in B Flat. Otherwise...
'Haydn: Violin Concerto No. 1 in C (Isaac Stern, violinist, with string orchestra; Columbia, 6 sides). One of the most delightful, if not the most profound, of all fiddle concertos; cleanly, clearly and delightfully played. Recording: good. Symphony No. 88 (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Also...
In one of the earliest, probably written when he was only 15,* Proust practices the mincing tones of flattery: "Madame, you are pretty, extremely pretty." He signed a note to one creature: "The most respectful servant of your Sovereign Indifference." He feigned passion, and strained for it, but could seldom...
The chanteuse in this delightful den is of course a beautiful Gallie hawkshaw, with orders to help Powell out in every way possible. Powell joins the foreign legion, battles the native revolutionaries (the same seamy Oriental, crowd who were cut down in "Wake Island", "Bataan", "Air Force" and infinitum) gets...
Chicanery in Rhode Island. Rhode Island struck him as "the most delightful spot of ground I have seen in America . . . For rural scenes and pritty, frank girls, I found it the most agreeable place I had been in thro' all my peregrinations." To Chronicler Hamilton the American character in...