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...heavyweight conductor for a few seasons, it gets very proud of its bumps and bruises. When the top-flight conductor resigns, and a bantamweight takes his place, the orchestra is apt to sulk. In the past few years two of the finest U. S. symphony orchestras have had this letdown: Manhattan's Philharmonic-Symphony (Toscanini to Barbirolli); the Philadelphia Orchestra (Stokowski to Eugene Ormandy). The Philharmonikers have kept a stiff upper lip, but the Philadelphians, after brooding and glooming for a whole season, last week broke out in a williwaw...
...little of the customary interest for which Koussevitzky as a program builder, has become justly famous. Recalling with extreme satisfaction the magnificent reading of Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony which began last season's concerts, the Symphony in E minor, "From the New World" by Dvorak, is something of a letdown. We cannot believe that Koussevitzky was governed in his choice by the holiday which precedes the concert. More probably, Koussevitzky feels that this symphony has unjustly suffered because it has been overplayed and not because it is inferior workmanship. One thing is sure, that a great conductor can make this...
...style of his own. At the age of 56, when most men begin to take things easier, Stradivari painstakingly evolved an entirely new model, broader and darker in color than the Amati. All his life he had been a feverish but carefully slow worker; his later years showed no letdown. Though some of his last fiddles bear the marks of an old man's failing eyesight and trembling hands, the instruments he produced after the age of 83 are especially prized. (Violinists Kreisler, Zimbalist, Jacques Gordon, Heifetz own Strads of this period...
...letdown stands in store for the Crimson soccer forces here today in their last formal engagements before Yale next week. At 12:30 o'clock the Varsity meets Springfield, contenders for the league crown, while two hours later the Freshmen meet Worcester Academy...
...testimonial to the author's enthusiasm for the spectacle of bullfighting. Green Hills of Africa (1935) was an exhaustive and exhausting account of a month's big-game shooting, marred by the ill-temper of its gibing digressions on critics and fellow writers. The first had been letdown enough, but in the second it seemed that Hemingway had definitely given over his precise eloquence to ignoble uses-that, carried away by his peculiar gifts, he had turned from the deeper study of the human tragedy to revel in the mere shock and suddenness of wanton killing...