Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon last week, at latitude 22:10 North, longitude 51:28 West-1,900 miles east of Havana, Cuba, on the regular trade route from Barbados to England-the wireless operator of the British tanker El Ciervo began tapping out an alarm...
...making ragpickers a touch romantic. Some of his canvases: Sax Sec-lion, a red-coated Negro band turning on the heat in Harlem; Chatham Square Street Fight, two stevedores sparring, while kids streak up to see the fun; Such Sweet Sorrow, a pair of drunks embracing under the El...
...which it was intended. Since the harpsichord seems to have a definite place musically, it is strange that modern composers in their search for new colors and mediums have not attempted to write for it, except in a very few instances (De Falla's Concerto and his puppet-opera El Retablo de Maese Pedro, for example), It will be interesting in the future to see whether this instrument will take its place again as a medium of the expression of the time, or will remain only a means of reawakening the music of the past...
...pieces by Chopin, Debussy and Ravel, but what left them wide-eyed with wonder was his musicianly performance of 14 of his own complicated and expert compositions, some of them written when he was only four. None of them was childish. Some, with descriptive titles like Procession d'Eléphants, Les Abeilles Piquantes, Berceuse, showed a style reminiscent of such advanced composers as Ravel and Stravinsky. All were as deftly and strongly constructed as by a master builder. When he had finished, Manhattan critics, groping for comparisons, could find only one similar instance in musical history: famed Infant...
...Leverett 70, Kirkland 67, Adams 55, Winthrop 54, Dunster 41, Dudley 15. Basketball Standing Won Lost Kirkland 7 0 Leverett 6 1 Adams 4 3 Winthrop 4 8 Dunster 3 4 Eliot 3 4 Lowell 1 6 Dudley 0 7 Leading Scorers Lubchansky (Dun.) 58 Stewart (Lev.) 43 Burt (El.) 39 McGuiness (Dun.) 32 Jackson (Ad.) 30 Cordingley (Lev.) 28 Foster (Kir.) 27 Ezell (Kirk.) 26 Lyford (Low.) 26 Marans (El.) 26 McSweeney (Kir.) 25 Roberts (Kirk.) 24 Eisenstein (Low.) 22 Kothe (Ad.) 20 Tonkonow (Low.) 20 Hockey Standing Won Lost Leverett 3 0 Winthrop 3 0 Dudley...