Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...institution, founded by professor Asa Gray in 1864, contains one of the world's finest collections of plant types. The six-member staff studies everything from the flora of Bolivia to plant life in the Rocky Mountains, carefully cataloguing material in three floors of steel cabinets, or in the library which stands on the spot once occupied by Gray's home...
...been granted to aging, cello-sized (5 ft. 4 in.) Conductor Mengelberg in September 1939. Through 44 years, except for stretches in New York (1921-29) and London, he had devoted himself to pounding and polishing Amsterdam's orchestra into one of the two or three finest in the world...
...years), she has taken in hand a whole new range of novelist's material; that this material includes the war and many of the unprecedented goods & evils, loyalties and disloyalties that emerged into mid-century consciousness in the course of it. It is by all odds her finest book...
Some of the finest music-making around goes on at the frequent concerts--mostly free--sponsored by the Harvard and Radcliffe Music Clubs. Last night's presentation of contemporary chamber music at Paine Hall was an exception. Rich composers and artists were for the most part members of the Harvard Music Department, and two of the four compositions played were receiving their premiers...
...highlight of the evening for me was Allen Sapp's second Violin Sonata. The dry-tang texture of the first movement, caused by the conflict of harmonies between violin and piano, combines with the many melodies to give a very striking effect. Perhaps the finest moment in the piece comes in the carefully built-up climax of the second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really...