Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crawford sang a half dozen Hungarian folk-songs in the richly colored arrangements made by Bartok in 1929. Most of these were melancholy in subject and in treatment; and she captured their moods admirably. She did a group of five Webern songs, dating from 1909-1917. Webern had not yet evolved the highly atomized style that has, for good or (probably) bad, made him the No.1 idol of the young fry among today's composers. With the exception of the moving "Kahl reckt der Baum" (to words of Stephan George), these songs did not seem worth writing down...
...Merely Players" is the brainchild of Barry Morse, the acknowledged first-ranking star of the Canadian stage, who is appearing this summer with the Group 20 Players. Morse describes his show as "a light-hearted look at the actor and his life, his ups and downs, troubles and triumphs--in fact and fiction, in various periods and places...
With the generous cooperation of the weather, the Group 20 Players opened a lush, vigorous, colorful production of Sir James M. Barrie's Peter Pan last night...
...love to have a little boy," says Trumpeter Miles Davis, "with red hair, green eyes and a black face-who plays piano like Ahmad Jamal." Trumpeter Davis is one of the more fervent admirers of the pianist whose group is currently the hottest trio in jazz. Its leader is neither red-haired nor green-eyed-but the spell he casts on his faithful followers, including many a fellow jazzman, sometimes suggests the arrival of the first Martian from outer space...
...Churchill. It has invested about $5,000,000 in S.P. preferred shares that can be converted after 1960 into some 5% of S.-P.'s common. S.P. stock has already risen so high (from a '58 low of $2.87½ to $12.50 last week) that a group of banks that last year forgave $38.2 million in corporate debt in return for convertible preferred with a par value of $16.5 million have begun to sell the shares at a profit...