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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Haydn's Symphony in C Minor (Le Midi) began the program. This work, one of the less-often heard of Haydn's symphonies, has an unusual musical structure--one of the movements is marked "recitative," and consists of a dialogue between solo violin and orchestra. There is also an extended duet for solo violin and 'cello, during which the other instruments remain silent. Concertmaster Daniel Musher and 'cellist Sigrid Lemlein played these passages adequately, althought Musher's intonation was sometimes weak and his phrasing lacked clear articulation. Miss Lemlein drew a warm, full tone from her 'cello. The last movement...
...Liszt of the Piano Concerti and Borodin may as well be heard once in a while though. It is entertaining, if not profound, music; and the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has shown that it can do some very entertaining playing. If they continue to play with as much energy and idiomatic sympathy as they did Friday night, no one will complain of a lack of intonation, or an occassional misentry...
...Jordan radio heard in Cairo said Hussein and King Saud had agreed in their surprise talks in Saudi Arabia Sunday that the Jordan crisis was an internal affair...
...Prades. During the Spanish Civil War he was a passionate Loyalist. At war's end he exiled himself to "the village of Prades (pop. 5,400) in Southern France, where he spent much of his time and money helping refugees from Franco Spain. For a decade the world heard little of Pablo Casals' music; in 1947 he vowed never to appear in public so long as Franco ruled Spain. When Sir Stafford Cripps invited him to England to explain why Great Britain supported Franco, Casals refused, commented: "He would talk politics; I am talking morals...
...rented their first office and sat down to draw up a list of possible financial backers. The first name was Cleveland's Thompson Products, Inc., which already had its foot in the electronics door with a parts subcontract for Hughes's Falcon missile. As soon as Thompson heard from Ramo and Wooldridge. it told them to look no farther-just hurry to Cleveland to work out the financing details. Though Howard Hughes offered to help finance their new venture, it was too late...