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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conductor Wilfred Pelletier, who teaches at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music, suggested a 20-year-old, plump, black-haired pupil of his, who so far had sung only in church choirs. At the tryout, Anne sang the one bit of Bohème she knew: the famous second-act waltz song...
...Boston Symphony is justly famous for its constant presentation of new music, and criticism of Koussevitzky's selections is mostly a matter of taste. It is to be noted, however, that many of the composers played have not been entirely happy about the honor; Roy Harris especially registered several objections to the interpretation...
Silver-haired old Edwin Franko Goldman is dean of American bandmasters and a firm believer in himself (as "internationally famous") and in the soothing magic of music. Bandmaster Goldman thought he knew one reason why G.I.s were so unhappy in the Pacific (see ARMY & NAVY) : they didn't hear enough music, and what they did hear was awful. He had made a U.S.O. tour to the Philippines and Japan to lead U.S. Army bands. When he got back, he blew a loud blatt at the War Department...
...both crowd and clerisy, 57-year-old Bobby Clark has clicked in virtually every form of show business. Until 1936 he was the better half of the great vaudeville comedy team of Clark & McCullough. After his partner's suicide, he went on-as very few survivors of famous stage partnerships have-to achieve greater fame...
Most of Dostoevsky's short novels have been out of print for decades. This collection includes: The Gambler and The Double (two remarkable studies of pathological personalities) ; The Friend of the Family ("justly famous," says Mann, "for . . . a comic creation . . . rivaling Shakespeare and Molière"); The Eternal Husband (which creates the "eeriest effects" out of a "ludicrous cuckold['s] . . . malicious anguish"); Uncle's Dream (a Dickensian farce); the famed Notes from Underground ("an awe-and terror-inspiring example of ... sympathy and . . . frightful insight...