Word: horning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken a deep breath, returned Masked Ball to its rightful Sweden. Riccardo (Tenor Jussi Bjoerling) was further identified on the program as Gustave III. But the Met's restyling stopped there. The chorus, singing in Italian, hailed the king as "son of England." The conspirators (historically Counts Horn and Warting) were still Samuel and Tom, although no longer black. In three out of Masked Ball's five acts, the scenery (by one Mstislav Dobujinski) was the traditional Metropolitan mud color. But the 18th-Century costumes were excellent. The production cost about $35,000. The opening night...
...years ago, when famed Maestro Arturo Toscanini held a whip hand over it, the spirited, self-willed New York Philharmonic-Symphony was probably the greatest orchestra in the world. Its master horn and oboe soloists, its violin virtuosi had matched egos with dozens of great conductors, were so finely trained that only the hot lashes of the little Maestro could hold them in line. When in 1936 Maestro Toscanini stepped down from the Philharmonic's podium,* the Philharmonic's board of directors were hard put to find a new conductor sufficiently tough to take his place. After some...
...kicks. Scoring of brass against reed passages reminiscent of the famous chase chorus on Stealin' Apples. Benny's clarinet stars here. The other coupling is by the Sextet, and gives the soloists more opportunity to get off. Tunes are Royal Garden Blues and Wholly Cats. Cootie Williams' muted growl horn stars on Royal Garden, but the outstanding thing about the record is the rhythm section, which is second only to the Count's. As a matter of fact, Basic plays piano here, and shares honors with Artic Bernstein (bass), Charley Christians (electric guitar) and Harry Jaeger (drums). Wholly Cats features...
...tanks, scout cars and motorcycles rumbled over the tanbark in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week. Except for this "Preparedness Spectacle" staged by U. S. Army men, the 1940 National Horse Show was pretty much like its 54 predecessors. The scarlet-coated ringmaster tootled his horn. High-stepping saddle horses went through their prancing paces; harness horses pulled elegant buggies and swelegant owners; hunters and jumpers skimmed over the bars...
Snub-nosed, horn-rimmed, soft-spoken Chief Herman E. Gutheim looks more like a Harvard professor than a Hollywood fire chief. (He does teach first aid to many faculty members and university employees in evening classes.) Reminiscing about the day in 1908 when Chelsea burnt down or showing his souvenirs from the time when every Cambridge householder was required to possess one ladder and two leather buckets for the bucket brigade, Chief Gutheim points out that in the 41 years of fire fighting which he can remember Cambridge has always been rated A-1 by the underwriters. This has been...