Word: holmeses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In the good old ignorant days of Sherlock Holmes and Arsene Lupin, the thriller was a mild, usually non-murderous affair in which there was nothing more bestial than a hound with phosphorescent jowls. Today, when "emancipation is complete [and] Freud and Machiavelli have reached the outer suburbs," the pulp...
The orchestra is under the direction of Malcolm H. Holmes '28, former president of Pierian and now dean of the New England Conservatory. Tomorrow night's concert given in co-operation with the Radcliffe Choral Society, will include two movements of the Haffner symphony, the Rosamunde Overture, sections from Handel...
For this reason the string section of the orchestra came off on top, despite some fine work by the clarinetist and a desperate effort on the oboe to handle the difficult trio. The orchestra's fortissimo proved accurate, and Holmes earned his recalls.
The evening concluded with a place of utter tripe--the Goldmark Overture to Sakuntala which gave Holmes an opportunity to loss the whole school into the battle. To the usual two bassoons and two clarinets. The work was never well orchestrated, and the instrumental weighting did not prove a help...
If Holmes has done as well with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, the benefit concert April 17 should be one of the glories of spring.