Word: grander
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy then for President Lowell to say "that one is working for an end outside and above himself, that one's labor contributes to a lofty purpose, is what makes it, and with it, makes life itself, worthwhile; and the more distant the end, the more grander the prospect." It did not matter then that President Lowell did not say what this ideal would be, of how vague and hard to reach the distant goal really is. For, in the blur of memory, 1927 seems a calm, untroubled year...
...reputation as an exponent of the classics. For him, The Well-Tempered Clavier of Bach, which he recorded years ago, is the "Old Testament," and Beethoven's sonatas are the "New Testament." He is also at his best with the music of Mozart, which he plays on a grander scale than that favored by the tinkly music-box school of Mozart interpreters. Composers such as Chopin seem to elude Fischer, but when he sticks to Bach and Mozart, few pianists anywhere can match him. Wrote a Paris-Presse critic last year: "After a concert by Horowitz, the audience, stunned...
...celebrate his 67th birthday, his office staff had already presented him with two birthday cakes. But the music men had a grander present: a full keyboard spinet, jointly built by the nation's leading piano manufacturers of woods, metals, ivory and wool gathered from nine of the United Nations. The President sat down, obviously pleased, and played the Little Fairy Waltz, a tinkling tune he had learned as a boy back in Independence...
Last week the statue was taken from its shell and gently laid out in a truck to be transported to a grander location in Frederick's graceful palace of Sans Souci at Potsdam. Barely had the trip got under way when the truck broke down; the Reds announced that Frederick would be temporarily restored to his old pedestal, but that glory at Sans Souci still awaited...
...third, The Island God, a flop, had four performances. He recalls the Met's productions with distaste: "For The Island God they dragged on some rocks that looked like the third act of Die Walkure." The Met's huge stage, ceremonial trappings and big voices demand a grander canvas than Menotti now chooses to paint his tight little operas on. Moreover, the Met audience, to him, is "not an audience but a habit...