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...Bach: Fantasia and Fugue in G Minor, transcribed by Dimitri Mitropoulos (Minneapolis Symphony, Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia; 4 sides). Magnificent Bach effectively if somewhat lushly transcribed. Performance: good. Recording: excellent...
...keep them there. No film except Tarawa (TIME, March 20) has given keener images of what jungle fighting is like. Attack's images of vast messiness and spine-cracking effort as men move tanks, guns and ammunition from the beach into the jungle's boggy fantasia are even more impressive than the breathtaking shots made from low-flying strafers, or the magnificence of certain moments when the morning mist merges ships, men, surf, jungle into half-glimpsed symbols of men and nature...
...musical world never forgave Ole Bull for his ready attention to the lower musical tastes. One of the most phenomenally gifted fiddlers who ever lived, he ignored the classic repertory with a persistence that drove critics to fury. He liked to offer his own grand fantasia on Yankee Doodle, playing with a rapt expression ''as though," remarked one critic, "he were wrestling with the inward spasms of a Pythian frenzy." He liked to astound his audiences by performing on all four strings at once, a trick he managed with the aid of a special flat-topped bridge...
...Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme, August 1 The Boston Society of Ancient Instruments Alfred Zighera, Director La Sultane Couperin Fantasia upon one note Purcell Fantasia Orlando Gibbons Sonata in C major Handel Dances Edited by Tilman Susato Under the direction of Leonard Bernstein Four Symphonies Milhaud I. Le Printemps (1917) Allant--Chantant--Vif II. Pastorale (1913) Joyeux--Calme Joyeux III. Dixtuer a cordes (1921) Ouverture--Chorale--Etude Serenade (1921) Vivement...
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