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...Fifth Symphony is not a strikingly original work--its precision and simple, transparent orchestration show the influence of Mozart, but in its broad melodies and sudden modulations it is pure Schubert. The orchestra played it perfectly. I do not believe the string section has ever produced such light, mellow tones...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra | 5/20/1952 | See Source »

...long been out of stock. Now, "by request," Columbia has repressed them on LP. Few listeners will side with Debussy. Weingartner proves to be a tidy conductor indeed, but from these recordings, some made with the Vienna Philharmonic, some with the London Symphony, his chief characteristic seems to be mellow and spacious splendor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Records, Apr. 21, 1952 | 4/21/1952 | See Source »

...sounded rather thin, and not until the middle of the second movement did the group display the full tone that chamber music lovers have grown to expect of it. The final two movements were flawless. All four instrumentalists played precisely but not mechanically, and Haydn's mellow humor was brought out in every measure...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: Budapest Quartet | 3/5/1952 | See Source »

...years since, Methodist McConnell has stayed close enough to earth to become the best-known preacher of the "social gospel" in U.S. Protestantism. In By the Way (Abingdon-Cokesbury; $3.50), a chatty autobiography well furnished with preacher stories, the controversial patriarch of U.S. Methodists, now 80, takes a mellow backward look on his long struggle to give his religion a social conscience as well as a theological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Controversial Methodist | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

...Mello was the only Crimson track-man to get a place with a the for third in the pole vault. Mello's height was good enough for the place. Mellow would probably not have fared as well, but for the absence of pre-meet favorite...

Author: By George S. Abrams, | Title: Yale Defeats Crimson Relay Teams; Berman Bows in 600 | 1/22/1952 | See Source »

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