Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...
Ravel: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Leonard Bernstein, pianist-conductor, with the Philharmonic Orchestra of London; Victor, 5 sides). Ravel was feeling the hot breath of Gershwin on his neck when he wrote this one in 1932; Bernstein gives it dewy-eyed, loving treatment. Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...floor twice (and lost the fight on a controversial decision), Jersey Joe has acted like a kid cheated out of his marbles and determined to get them back. He began training far ahead of schedule-while Big Joe, eating his way to a blubbery 225 Ibs., was seeing London and Paris. He hired the roughest & toughest sparring mates he could find. He pulled no punches in sparring sessions at his New Jersey camp...
...leaven its solid fare of political and artistic comment, London's socialist New Statesman and Nation conducts weekly "competitions" in epigrams, limericks, etc. Recently readers were asked to play a game originated by Philosopher Bertrand Russell. On BBC's Brains Trust program (Britain's sprightly Town Meeting of the Air), he had humorously conjugated an "irregular verb" as "I am firm; you are obstinate; he is a pig-headed fool...
...London's Victoria and Albert Museum was once considering the purchase of three drawings by a young Pole named Feliks Topolski. Said one committeeman: "We must draw the line somewhere!" Portraitist Augustus John answered the objection with a crack: "But can you draw the line like Topolski...