Word: mendelssohns
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...coach started to improve the quality of singing and introduced it to Palestrina and Mendelssohn. In 1915-16 the club surprised itself and its competitors by winning the Intercollegiate Glee Club contest with Vittoria's "Ave Maria...
...hall, and flamenco music, with its sensuality and its thumping outbursts, is the guitar's most exciting province. The vocal parts add an Oriental flavor. An Andrés Segovia Recital (Decca) is a more reflective guitar record: the soloist specializes in pure versions of Bach, Schubert and Mendelssohn...
...squares put you down strong (turned on you). "Those dope stories-all about how you go around killing old ladies when you smoke a pot. It's a real drag. Actually, you just sit around and listen to music. I love Bach. Mozart? No comment. Mendelssohn? How square can you get? I want it modern. I want to go to Sweden where it really wails...
...occupation troops). Four or five citizens wrote protesting letters to the Honolulu papers, but there was no picket line. Six hundred showed up for the concert in Dillingham Hall (capacity: 850), and Gieseking brought them to their feet for encores after a sparkling program of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Mendelssohn and Debussy. He gave them four encores, accepted a lei of pink carnations...
...Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, George Szell conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). For sheer beauty and realism of orchestral sound, this recording of the overture and four incidental pieces is one of the finest since the first LP was made. A kindling performance...