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...ancient curse, this poverty in the midst of plenty. For the most ardent meeting-goer, unless he be a Superman or a Mandrake, has no choice but to go to the U.T. in utter despair...
...under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
...that has known little but the light trip of the sock, there comes this week the measured tread of buskined feet upon the boards. Maurice Evans returns, for a limited engagement, in what is perhaps the most lyrical of Shakespeare's historical dramas, "King Richard II." The modern theatre-goer can only be fascinated by this tragedy of a man too weak for an age of strength, and watch with envy the grandeur and buoyant optimism not found in the sordidness of the twentieth century...
...average concert-goer is not concerned with these abstractions, but even a casual listener, if he is at all acquainted with Strawinsky's music, must notice in contemporary compositions the re-echoing not only of his spirit, but also of his treatment of the actual details of writing music. For example, the exciting sound of regular, freakily marked rhythmical beats varied by complex shifts of pulse and accent is a commonly heard effect which everyone associates immediately with the "Strawinsky influence...
...which can be very reasonably objected to on purely aesthetic grounds, for the music is certainly distorted in the process. The justification for such arrangements is a practical one. They are extremely convenient both for the student who can play them without orchestra and for the concert-goer who wishes to gain greater familiarity with music which is done only rarely on regular programs...