Word: les
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brilliant young pianist zipped vivacissimamente through the final movement of Beethoven's "Les Adieux" sonata. Impeccable in white tie and tails, he bowed to the storm of applause that swept Carnegie Hall, dutifully played three encores. Later that night, he could be seen walking down neon-gaudy Broadway. Just five blocks south of the august concert hall, he ducked into a cellar. Within a few minutes Concert Pianist Friedrich Gulda was on the bandstand, amid the smoke and clatter of Broadway's famed Birdland nightclub, playing jazz-cool, glittering and poignant as icicles. Sitting in with the Modern...
...short of liquid capital, demand a lump sum. In the suburbs, numbers of municipally owned apartment houses have gone up, but they are for functionaries and privileged workers, and the priority list is long. The great mass of French people looking for a home are left to grapple with les corbeaux (the ravens), the landlords; or they must deal with the tenants of pegged-rent apartments who sublet at exorbitant rates...
...Yardlings tied the score again and went ahead in the space of nine seconds in the last period. Defense man Les Stevens beat Volpe on a blue-line shot at 4:57, and Dave Beadie fired the puck into the upper right corner after taking the ensuing face...
...starting defense is rugged and hard-shooting. Les Stevens has a particularly hard shot from the blue line although he played forward in school. Stocky Woody Harris, who was on the freshman football team last fall, will probably team with Stevens...
Stravinsky: Les Noces (Vienna Chamber Choir, soloists, pianos and percussion conducted by Mario Rossi; Vanguard...