Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from Europe to carry primarily students and displaced persons. On the Marine Jumper en route to Le Havre I met, in the student category, Quakers, Youth Hostelers, Adventure Trailers, one delegate to the World Council of Churches, and huge numbers of young tourists going abroad ostensibly for study in London, Paris, Copenhagen, Geneva, and elsewhere. Their groups held orientation programs on the ship 25 hours a day, passed out reams of literature, held foreign language courses daily, and generally showed their eagerness to promote International understanding and prevent future war. All these idealists, unhappily, seemed naively unaware of the economic...
...program at Tuesday's sight reading rehearsal will include Berlioz's Roman Carnival Overture, Haydn's "London" Symphony, Dvorak's Sinflonietta, Borodin's Polovetsian Dances from Prince Igor, and a Suite by Bach...
...setting, the plot, and the words were familiar enough to Londoners. For it was the same bawdy Beggar's Opera that John Gay had written more than two centuries ago. Unlike some others who had tinkered with Gay's libretto (Frederic Austin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington), Britten had followed it carefully, keeping to the squalor and backside-slapping of 18th Century London. The music, in its latest disguise, was something else again...
...trumpet or cymbals. Smack in the middle of Over the Hills and Far Away, he suddenly switched from a major to a minor key. In one duet between Lucy Lockit and her father, he ran two separate songs together, to make a striking question & answer fugue. At times, London critics found themselves listening to such tart dissonances as a C sharp and C natural grinding together; at other times, to an orchestral accompaniment that was as clear and gentle as Mozart. The songs seldom ended in the same key as they had begun, often wound up with a different tempo...
Died. Dame Lilian Braithwaite, D.B.E., seventyish, tart-tongued grand old lady of the English stage (The Vortex, Arsenic and Old Lace); of a heart ailment; in London...