Word: gracefully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sounded as though it had not yet calmed down after the Hindemith. The balances were poor and the tone in general ragged. Mr. Senturia held the group together with difficulty, and the attacks were consistently bad. The second movement failed to sing, and the menuetto did not have the grace and style which is usually the Orchestra's strongest point...
...free-for-all takes place on a bare stage, as twelve dancers in practice costumes bounce in and out with classic grace, fitting into seemingly insoluble patterns. But their movements have none of the solemnity of the classic ballet, are free and relaxed, like those of children racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden...
...Sonata No. 15 for Violin and Piano, Beethoven's Trio No. 9 with Pianist Vladimir Yampolsky, and the Gilels, Kogan, Rostropovich trio; Monitor). Singly and together, papa David and son Igor Oistrakh show that the Russians know how to play Bach and Mozart with purity and cool grace...
...upon a time when I was in Cambridge I had serious thoughts of marrying a Boston girl and settling down in the Back Bay to spend the rest of my days. Such was the influence of four years of that... kind of association I am complaining about. By the grace of God I took a trip at that time, meeting numbers of real Americans, i.e. those from the west and south. I was saved, but it was an awfully narrow escape...
...dinner with Mohammed V (Nixon's heavy blue beard, the delight of cartoonists, was showing five o'clock shadow). He made one of his rare visits to the Senate gymnasium, shaved, showered and stepped on the scales. His weight: 166, down 20 Ibs. in two years by grace of careful calorie counting...