Word: harps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emeritus. Other works to be performed are Danius Milhaud's modern arrangement of Couperin's "Overture and Allegro" from the "La Sultane Suite;" Faure's "Elegie" for cello and orchestra with Judith Davidoff, Radcliffe '50 as the soloist; Dvor ak's sixth "Slavonic Dance;" Debussy's "Sacred Dance" for harp and strings with Phyllis Botner, Radcliffe '50 as soloist; and an excerpt from Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite...
...Matisse's revolutionary synthesis through the years has become increasingly lucid, brilliant and gay. Now his subject matter means little; the colors are the thing. And each color, linked in loose, insistent rhythms of linear composition, sounds in the eye like a separate instrument: trumpet, cello, cymbals, oboe, harp and clarinet. Freely transforming nature, the paintings resound with symbolic echoes...
...come at the invitation of his friend Arturo Toscanini to conduct the NBC Symphony Orchestra in four concerts, and he had brought along a briefcase full of surprises. For his first concert, he wrenched the orchestra and three soloists through a jangling, abrasive concerto for harp, harpsichord, piano and strings by Swiss Composer Frank Martin. Last week, he pulled out another new work: the Symphony No. 5 of Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu. Another surprise: a seldom-heard work by 91-year-old U.S. Expatriate Templeton Strong, who left for Switzerland some 50 years ago in a rage because he couldn...
...bejeweled baton of pure gold and ivory, now in white silk, like a Doge of Venice . . . studded with jewels . . . and a swastika of gleaming pearls. . . ." Himmler, deluded to the end, maintained a "school of eager researchers [who] studied . . . Rosicrucianism and Freemasonry, the symbolism of the suppression of the harp in Ulster, and the occult significance of Gothic pinnacles and top-hats at Eton." Hitler himself sometimes rose from his "modest supper of vegetable pie and distilled water to prance upon the table and identify himself with the great conquerors of the past...
Susan Reed: Folk Songs and Ballads -Volume II (Victor, 6 sides). More in 20-year-old Susan Reed's artfully simple style. The singing (accompanied by Irish harp or zither) is uneven, but the best of it makes very pleasant listening. The album includes, among others, Danny Boy, Greensleeves (which Shakespeare mentions in The Merry Wives of Windsor) and the plaintive Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair. Performance: good...