Word: flatly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...portrait of Picasso, painted at the height of the Cubist movement by one of Cubism's great saints and Picasso's great friend, the late José Gonzales or "Juan Gris" (John Grey). This ex-engineering student said, "The only possible pictorial technique is a sort of flat-colored architecture," used few brilliant colors, painted his Hommage à Picasso in green, brown and grey...
...passer. The forward pass, written into the rules in 1906, wandered around as a hit-or-miss side line for a quarter of a century. Now, since it has become the darling of the Rules Committee, the pass has developed into a major technique-classified into spot, crossover, alley, flat aerials and many another specialty. That football may eventually evolve into a sort of basketball is evidenced by a glimpse of any vacant lot in November: most boys are throwing footballs, not running with them...
Sibelius: Symphony No. 5 in E Flat Major (Boston Symphony, Sergei Koussevitzky conducting: Victor: 10 sides). One of the big-domed Finn's more ingratiating symphonies, magnificently played and recorded. The lusty tone poem Pohjola's Daughter fills out the last three sides...
Mozart: Symphony in C Major, K. 200 (Berlin College of Instrumentalists, Fritz Stein conducting: Victor: 4 sides), and Symphony in B Flat Major, K. 319 (Chamber Orchestra, Edwin Fischer conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Two lesser but important Mozart symphonies, crisply played...
Mozart: Concerto in E Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (London Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, with Artur and Karl Schnabel; Victor: 6 sides). Only available recording of a great Mozart work, excellently performed...