Word: entres
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...that New Yorkers have heard this season. He swayed excitedly from side to side, made fierce faces at the players to bring out every last theatric effect. Scriabin's Divine Poem, stunningly bombastic, compelled an ovation for the hard-working Clevelander. But Rodzinski had still louder music: two entr'actes from Soviet Composer Dmitri Shostakovich's Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk...
...think such a meal sufficient for midday. Some of the ladies politely hinted that they did not. Beaming as brightly as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt replied that she was just experimenting and wanted to find out. Recent dinner guests at the executive mansion have reported frankfurters as the entrée. "I should be most unhappy," says Eleanor Roosevelt, ''if I could not buy new books, but having beefsteak for dinner would mean nothing to me whatsoever...
...penurious nobility of Europe made many calls on his purse, as did the many sycophants revolving in the orbit of a rich man. Of such he made society correspondents of the Herald, to two ends. Firstly these people had their entrée in society; secondly, their salaries helped to keep down profits. And the salaries were high. Real newspaper men on the Herald could not aspire to them...
...Pops Orchestra, under Arthur Fiedler, will present the following program in Symphony Hall tonight: Military Polonaise Chopin-Glazounov "Midsummer Night's Dream" Overture Mendelssohn "Rosamunde" Entr'acte Schubert "Carmen" Fantasia Bizet Sonatine Transatlantique Tansman "Pavane for a Dead Infanta" Ravel "Nutcrackor" Ballet Suite Tchaikovsky "Show Boat" Selections Kern "Blue Danube" Waltz Strauss Fifth Hungarian Dance Brahms
...appraising all the availables in Europe when they came upon a Russian exiled in Paris. They traced his history: at 12 he had been chef d'orchestre in the theatre of his native town (Tver in North Russia), composed whatever music was required for the plays and conducted the entr'actes. At 14 he went to Moscow to study, chose for his instrument the bull fiddle, toured Europe for ten years as a contrabass virtuoso. By 1919 he had achieved his ambition, become a conductor again. Koussevitzky concerts were soon famous in Moscow and Petrograd but that was not enough...