Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even the Classical sections of the evening were filled with contradictions. Schubert's Fifth Symphony, the longest single work and the only one played as originally written, was technically the worst; in both first and third movements the orchestra fell apart, violins didn't play together and so on. And yet, the idea was there. Schubert is easy to play wrong; it can be slushy or dry or cute; to get the unique Schubert characteristic of Romantic Classicism and complex simplicity is difficult. But the orchestra, despite its momentary technical amnesia, got that blend perfectly...
...good many Brazilians are stumped by Simonsen's up-to-date economics, and even those who understand them do not always like them. But in hundreds of letters and telegrams that, by week's end, had flooded his fifth-floor, book-lined bachelor apartment in downtown Rio, he was applauded for his stand on the Marshall Plan. Some of the applause was for what he said. Much was for Simonsen, the Brazilian...
...bent to were no longer imaginary. He had spent 200,000 lire (about $560) to hire a hall and the Rome Opera House Orchestra to play in it. The orchestra management, touched by Abbati's earnestness, even knocked down the price. Included in his program: Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, Rossini's L'ltaliana in Algeri, the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger. Said he: "I closed my eyes and there was my orchestra, the same one as at home. The music just flowed. Then I opened my eyes and saw a real orchestra before...
Professor B. F. Skinner, of the University of Indiana, delivered the fifth in the series of William James Lectures on Psychology yesterday afternoon in Emerson...
Joining the Orchestra in the concert is the Radcliffe Choral Society. Works on the evening's program include three movements from Schubert's Fifth Symphony, and selections of Bach, Couperin, and Weinberger...