Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the Louisville Orchestra decided two years ago to stop hiring expensive soloists and use its cash to commission original compositions instead (TIME, Dec. 20, 1948), Louisville audiences have had many an ear-popping musical surprise. Last week they got an eye-popper as well: Modernist Martha Graham in a brand-new 25-minute dance to the accompaniment of the 50-piece orchestra...
Then, intense little Dancer Graham, 47, set about pondering "why I should appear on a stage with a symphony orchestra in the background instead of in the pit." She decided to compose herself a solo on the story, from the fourth book of the Apocrypha, of Judith, who delivered the Israelites from the siege of Nebuchadnezzar by charming his chief general, Holofernes, and then lopping off his head. Composer Schuman set to work on a score...
When the big night came last week, a sell-out audience in Louisville's Columbia Auditorium warmed up on Wagner and Beethoven. After intermission, the musicians took their places upstage behind a translucent curtain. As the music began somberly, Dancer Graham was discovered standing motionless on the stage's apron...
...yard medley relay: Steinhart, Graham, Sachnoff; 220-yard free, Berke, Kinney; 50-yard free: Fox, Stroud; Dive: Briggs, Weir; 100-yard free; Fox, Berke; 150-yard back: Steinhart, Woods; 200-yard breast: Vielman, Wheeler; 440-yard free: Tolf, Kinney; 400-yard free relay: Berke, Stroud or Hull, Stone or Sachnoff...
While the congregation was with heads bowed, Mr. Graham called upon all who wanted to be saved to come forward--"no one is looking." Those who came forward, a goodly number, were ushered through a side door by assistants, "to have a little scripture read to them." With a closing hymn, the meeting was over, and 6,000 Christians headed for the subways and homes...