Word: harped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poetry. A couple of producers dug into the trunks and brought forth some spectacular antiques. Audio Rarities offered Golden Age of the Theater ($5.95), a horror of prehistoric recording in which the voices of the great dead can occasionally be distinguished. Among them: Sarah Bernhardt, who sounds like a harp seraphic tuned to the emotional level of Mother Machree; E. H. Sothern and Julia Marlowe, who coo as ponderously as a pair of 200-lb. doves. In "If I'm Elected . . ." ($4.98), Heritage caught a tumult of political echoes in what appears to have been an ear trumpet. Teddy...
...musicians did the most for the dream. They put piano, flute, violin, and harp together with a very good and strange effect. The harp was a very fine touch by Margaret E. Sloan...
...other novelty was Handle's Harp Concerto in B-flat. Soloist Sally Day traversed her fiendishly difficult part with ease and grace. The total effect was a treat to the car, and to the eye as well...
Last summer two dozen U.S. evangelists descended on the country in an invasion planned to the last poster by ex-Propagandist Muto. Teaming up with Japanese pastors and three marimbas, an organ, harp, chorus, a public-address system and a portable stage, they had encouraging results for such a stubbornly non-Christian country: an estimated 88,520 people reached in 140 public services, and 45 baptized, with another 89 being prepared for baptism...
...piled velvet. Then came the symphony, as prodigal with melodies as a bargain basement with wares, innocently loaded with hints of other compositions, but still characteristic and convincing. The concerto, expertly played by Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, was paler, but it did have 'some gripping episodes, notably the haunting harp harmonics accompanying a string song in the slow movement. Both works were put in the shade by the concluding piece, Chôros No. 6 (written in 1926), a fine tropical thunderstorm accompanied by pagan drums...