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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Chamber music can be found in neighborhood churches or refurbished lofts; grand opera may be sung in reconditioned movie theaters with the orchestral pyrotechnics of Verdi or Bizet tamed to a single piano. Many programs are heard in some of the city's finest new recital halls, which bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth...
...seeded Ben Heckscher won his second consecutive Intercollegiate Squash Championship yesterday to climax one of the finest squash careers ever turned in by a Harvard player. He defeated Navy's John Griffiths, seeded fourth, 12-15, 15-7, 15-10, 15-7, in the finals...
...McVey, playing one of his finest games of the year, led the Crimson in scoring with two goals and an assist. Bud Higgenbottom and Bill Collins, both on the third line, each added a goal...
...concert concluded with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered...
...gruesome caricature of human nature at its most bestial; yet step by step, Reporter Michener has made the incredible monster a believable horror. The unprintable acts attributed by witnesses to Donath lead Michener to quote with approval the verdict of "one of America's finest and gentlest newspapermen," who said: "I was in Budapest at the time and although I believe that revengeful death accomplishes little, I devoutly believe that the human race would have been better off if the Hungarians had assassinated every...