Word: minor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make the play, Poet MacLeish reverently lifted pieces from the four gospelers and from Bach's B Minor Mass, St. John Passion and St. Matthew Passion. These fitted elements he reconciled into a compelling drama. And he reconciled the whole drama, in a way that has seldom been done, with the special predicaments of broadcasting...
Also on the program are Bach's Concerto in C Major for two pianos, played by Douglas P. Allanbrook '48 and Paul E. des Marais '49, and his concerto in D Minor for two violins, handled by Maxwell M. Harvey '44 and Robert F. Ritzenhein 2G, as well as the Bach Choir's rendition of Cantata Number...
Arturo Toscanini, who had made it plain that he wanted no demonstrations, passed his 80th birthday quietly at home as he wished; but the NBC Symphony sneaked in a demonstration anyway. Delivered to his home, and played at dinner: a special recording (the Minuet from Schubert's A Minor Quartet), preceded and followed by recorded congratulations...
...plot is slight and suspenseless, and not steered with-much skill. It is the professor, with his crotchets, jokes and advice, that gives the play a fitful animation; and an assortment of minor characters, most of them fellow-warriors of the colonel, that give it color and geniality. They keep popping in & out, seldom doing anything more striking than singing songs, drinking toasts, dabbling in the past, dreaming toward the future. But they frequently do all these things in a gay and human fashion, and occasionally their war experiences give the characters an unexpected third dimension...
...with anybody. Governor Dwight Green had thereupon picked a nobody-a political unknown, Russell W. Root. A big, bumbling bear of a man notable only for his party loyalty, his amiability, and his political ritualism ("I'll go along"), Root's undistinguished career as lawyer and minor public servant did not stand up well under comparison with Kennelly...