Word: listening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They started to make trips to the Savoy on Massachusetts Avenue to listen to trumpeter "Red" Allen and the Searsdale (New York) High School sensation, clarinetist Bob Wilbur. After a time, when they became known at the Savoy, they woud climb up on the stand and take over the nightclub...
...main thing was that the program which began with Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio was easy to listen to; it was well played, though not sensationally so, and it left everyone in a good mood for the start of the season...
...Motorists passing on the highway slowed down," Grim reported. "Some stopped to listen, remained to catch the spirit of the morning." A thin sun broke through the haze. Tanned farmers, assembled from their parched fields, looked silently up at it. "We thank Thee for Thy goodness," said a voice from the platform. Children romping on the brown grass were shushed by their parents. George Etzell, editor of the Clarissa Independent, took notes on the sermon, sitting near the war memorial bearing the names of Clarissa citizens who fought in two wars. Three families at the service were thinking of their...
...Guido Turchi, 34, follows a more conservative line ("I detest exclusiveness and dogma"), relies on fine craftsmanship and simplicity more than experimentation. His mild-mannered Piccolo Concerto, with its pensive string passages and brilliant tone colors, was the easiest to listen to of the three new works...
...know," he says, "it makes me realize as never before that people actually listen to us. And that I find very encouraging...