Word: heard
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...wives but he was also an enthusiastic composer. One of his love songs appropriately titled Helas, Madame, will be performed in New York this week by a group known as Pro Musica Antiqua. The royal composer is only one of hundreds from Albeniz to Zandonai whose works are heard in New York every season in dozens of little halls and auditoriums far from Carnegie Hall and the Met. There out-of-the-way music groups, both amateur and professional, are giving Manhattan the kind of musical excitement that the booming off-Broadway theater has brought to its stage. See Music...
...appetizer, McClellan's committee heard about the Teamsters' free and easy ways with union funds. The Teamsters' Western Boss Frank Brewster, who came to power as Dave Beck's first lieutenant (and followed Beck as chairman of the union's Western Conference), was described as having ordered a $3,900 Teamster loan to a Seattle racketeer for opening a tavern and gambling joint in Spokane...
Chamber music can be found in neighborhood churches or refurbished lofts; grand opera may be sung in reconditioned movie theaters with the orchestral pyrotechnics of Verdi or Bizet tamed to a single piano. Many programs are heard in some of the city's finest new recital halls, which bring music closer to home because they are in residential areas, e.g., the new auditorium of New York University's Law School in Washington Square, which serves as a musical center for lower Manhattan; the wood-lined, acoustically outstanding Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum on upper Fifth...
When 1956 ended and it came time to look back over the year and give out the various motion picture awards, a low moan could be heard from some critics. The American film comedy, it seems, was showing signs of mortal illness. Perhaps the plaints were a little premature, because the very end of the year brought The Rainmaker, which, while not bright enough to dispell all the gloom about the future of comedy, is still a much better than average motion picture...
...more than capacity audience called conductor and soloist back six times. It was indeed a concert of professional quality, and as fine an evening of student orchestral playing as I have heard in Cambridge over many years...