Word: halled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sounds Impractical. Last week, a Carnegie Hall audience got to hear just how much further tall, slender Composer Mennin had advanced. In picking his symphonic form, he had tried something that even Beethoven had never attempted until he was past 50 and had eight great symphonies to his credit. Mennin's Fourth, "The Cycle," was an ambitious choral symphony in which he worked out the chorus in all three movements instead of just the last (as Beethoven did in his Ninth). Said Mennin: "I know a piece that takes so many performers is impractical, but I wanted to write...
...apparently on the verge of death from a duodenal ulcer, was suddenly cured when someone at her bedside called upon Jeanne de Valois for help. Last week the cause of Jeanne de Valois reached almost the end of the long road. In the Vatican's red damask Consistorial Hall, pink-cheeked Clemente Cardinal Micara rose and begged the Pope's permission to close her case. One by one the assembled cardinals rose and bowed to the papal throne; then, as the Pope asked each one for his opinion, each murmured "placet" (it pleases). The canonization, say church authorities...
...came the seniority of human voices, scarely audible, singing "Thou shalt arise, arise from the dead." It was a magnificent entrance. No shuffing of pages or motion of any kind hinted that the Chorus was about to sing. Its entrance was only a mysterious whisper floating out into the hall, carrying the seprano solo along on top. The discipline of the Chorus was a real tribute to its director, Professor Woodworth. Adcle Addison, the seprano soloist, sang her part clearly and beautifully. And for the second time in two years, Leonard Bernstein had successfully brought Mahler's Second Symphony...
Both pocket and standard billiards will be available for students. On the theory that Harvard and local men do not mix, especially in a pool hall, LaBreck is, for the time being, restricting his establishment to students. In the event of low attendance he will be forced to open to all comers...
Holt studies the region high above the earth, where the sky is always black and the temperature may be 1000 degrees. By working in a Jefferson Hall laboratory, he is learning the processes which might explain the nightly disappearance of the electron cloud...