Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English progressive musician." The year was 1902, and Strauss had just heard Edward Elgar's massive oratorio, The Dream of Gerontius. Since then, Gerontius has remained one of the most widely praised-and least frequently heard -monuments of English music. Last week Manhattan concertgoers had a chance to hear the full Gerontius score for the first time in a quarter-century. The occasion: a performance by the New York Philharmonic and the Westminster Choir under Guest Conductor Sir John Barbirolli...
...beginning of the performance, Conductor Barbirolli turned to the audience and remarked that it was about to hear a "sublime masterpiece." Gerontius, as Barbirolli's sympathetic performance demonstrated, is considerably less than a masterpiece. But it is considerably more than the musical antique a generation of concertgoers has taken...
...says Actress Arlene Francis. "They're only interested in security, and they can get that by staying home and working 52 weeks a year on television." Says Celeste (Third Best Sport) Holm: "People used to tour as a whole family. Family life was preserved in that trunk you hear about. Families still reminisce about being together for Christmas in Dubuque and all that jazz. Today, actors won't give up family life at home...
...planks do for a shogun's litter. No occasion passes, among haiku composers, without hundreds of commemorative haiku, frequently written on the spot. A thief, about to be hanged for his crime, couched his last words in the haiku form: "As for the end -/ that I'll hear in the next world./ cuckoo, my friend." For the lower-brows there are even earthy haiku, called senryu in honor of their creator, who died more than a century ago; senryu fanciers publish 30 magazines of their...
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