Word: fantasias
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sunday night, from 7:15 to 8 o'clock, there will be a concert, in which members of the house will participate. Francois G. Leydet '48, pianist, will play the Chopin "Revolutionary Etude" and the Mozart "Fantasia." Mozart's Clarinet Concerto will be performed by Don Mishara '46, accompanied by Nicholas Van Slyck Occ. An original work by Van Slyek, "Sonats for Trumpet and Piano", will be played by the composer and Hugh L. Whitehouse...
...spinning any faster than things do on the stage while Pinafore holds it. Thereafter the show gets grounded, along with the showboat. The plot trails off, without even leaving footprints, in all directions; the people go through a lot of boisterous but baffling antics; a dream fantasia nominally involving Gilbert & Sullivan's Trial By Jury gets wedged somewhere into the proceedings...
...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...