Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fast as he found them, Marvin played them. "You can't imagine the thrill," he says, "of knowing I was the first man to hear them since the 18th century." Back at the Escorial, Marvin pried loose 33 additional sonatas, picked up more in Barcelona and at King's College, Cambridge. Last week's recital revealed Soler as a composer of technical virtuosity and sharply contrasted emotional effects in the Domenico Scarlatti tradition. Simple and water-clear in the slower passages, the sonatas were riffled suddenly with far-flung arpeggios and trip-hammer repetitions, combining stately classic...
...weeks. By last week White Hunter Godfrey had bagged a water buffalo, an elephant (with one shot), a hippo and a leopard. "I'm completely exhausted," he confided by phone to Peter Lind Hayes, who is substituting on his morning radio and TV shows. Peter occasionally let viewers hear the familiar adenoidal wheeze: "It looks bloop bleep like Wyoming. It's 123 degrees. You get headaches from the heat. But boy, that Bufferin [a sponsor] has been a godsend. By George, it's wonderful...
...magazine comments on the book, a columnist in the left-wing New Statesman and Nation declared: "His main case is both well founded and important, and it seems to me a shocking thing that it should be made so very difficult for the ordinary reading public to hear it." The New Statesman's columnist: Francis Williams...
...turn is best achieved by instruments, not the voice. The first and third songs seemed wholly unrewarding. I will admit that the second song has considerable merit; but even here the merit accrues not by means of the medium but in spite of it. I should like to hear this music with say, a clarinet playing the vocal part...
That word came from Sen. Hennings (D-Mo.), one of a sizable group invited to the White House from the Capitol to hear Eisenhower report on his Bermuda conference with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan of Great Britain...